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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-06
REGULAR DIVIDENDS FROM
COMMERCIAL CITY BANK
Semi.AnnuaI Dividends We're
Paid

The Commercial City Bank, of Amer
icus held it's semi-annual meeting Sat
friday morning and after a careful re-
view of the business of the past six
months the board of directors declared
the usual semi-annual cash dividend Of
four per cent. upon the capital stock
of $4,000.
The Commercial City bank is upon
an eight per cent dividend basis and
pays four per cent semi-annually in
July and January Since it's organize
ton five years ago it has paid $4,000
to it's stockholders in dividends, or
twenty per cent. of the amount of it's
capital stock.
The affairs of the Commercial City
are under the personal direction OF
Vice President Crawford Wheatley and
Cashier R. E McNulty and thought the
youngest bank in Americas, in point @
years, it has established a record II
the commercial world of which it's
friends are justly proud.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-06

Mother-Mabel, why do you take
two pieces of cake?
Mabel-'Cause ma, you told me not
to ask twice for it.-Puck.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-06
PEACH CROP ESTIMATES
NOW Down TO $50 CARS
Half of GGOrgia'S Crop is
Already Marketed

Macon, Ca, July 5.-Estimates of the
Georgia peach crop for 1913, which
were at the first of the season placed
at 5000 to $500 cars, have gradually
been lowered until officials of the
Georgia Fruit exchange now say the
crop will be in the neighborhood of
$50 cars.
John F. Troutman, representing the
fruit exchange at Fort Valley, in dis
cussing the fruit crop here yesterday,
stated that nearly half of the crop has
already been marketed and that re-
cord prices have been gotten. From
SIPS to $3.50 per crate f. o. b. For
Valley, has been received.
practically the same prices were
paid in 1911, when we marketed 811
cars for the season. said Mr. Trout
man 1--WE estimate that the liberia
peach crop will be about 300 cars and
probably a little less than that num-
Der.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-06

Some people consider matrimony q
means to an end, while other know
that it is an end to a means
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-06
SUFFRAGISTS SCORE.
GEORGIA SENATE.
Refused Use Senate Chamber
Women are Wrdthy

Atlanta, Ga, July Georgia sui,
fragettes are up in arms about the
rebuff given them by the state senate
recently when the members of the
upper house, by a vote of 20 to I, re,
fused to consider a request made by
the women to use the senate cham
Der on the nights of July and 10 for
meeting place.
ut is an outrage that the women
of Georgia can not be accorded the
same courtesy given Washington COW
boys who are allowed to ride all over
the capitol on their horses said Mrs.
Mary L. McLendon, one of the Leaders
who appeared at the state house with
the request Thursday.
Gust because Senator Stark, who
has got bill about soft drinks isn't
in favor of woman suffrage we are MOI
allowed even to use the senate cham
Der at night for quiet meeting when
every little organization in the state
can get room in the capitol for the
mere asking of the custodian"
Unnamed Men Included.
The request of the suffrage advo-
Gates was presented to the upper
house in the form of privilege res0-
luton from Senator Hule, of the Thir
ty-ffth district
In it were named Mrs. S. E. Gun
bingham, Mrs. William H. FELTON,, Miss
Augusta Howard, Mrs. J. J. Ansley and
Mrs. J. H. Sibley, who desired to use
the senate chamber at o'clock on
the nights of July and 10 to discuss
the subject of "The Scope of the Elec-
trail Franchise"
The resolution said that several
men also desired to take part in the
discussion. but no names were given.
At its consideration Senator w. W
Stark, of the Thirty-third district,
arose and moved that it be laid on
the table. There was no debate and
the senate voted with Mr.. Stark.
To Try it Again. {.
I'VE will have one introduced in the
house on Monday" said Mrs. McLen-
don Representative John Y. Smith,
of Fulton, has agreed to bring up
the question, and we hope to get t
through.
q don't see what believing in We
mans suffrage has to do with letting a
few Georgia women use the senate
chamber. 1t was discourteous of the
members of the senate to say the
least, but a great many of them are
not very broad
I'VE didn't ask them to vote on
womans suffrage nor for their views
on the question. We merely asked
the use of the capitol and it was de-
MED US churlishly"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
PRETTY GIRL GAS SUICIDE
Tired of Life She Wrote A.
ter N. Y. Brokers' Visit.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune !

New London, Conn. Jan. 25.-'l am Just
tired of life" was the laconic message
written bv- Miss Bernice f.. Leach, TWEEN
,v.onc wears old which she pinned TO her
breast before she placed in her mouth a
tube leading To a gas jet, wrapped a blan-
Lot .bout her head and slowly died from
asphyxiation in her home, No. iS6 Main
street. late Saturday night.
Miss Leach came from st. Adams, VT,
with her step-father and mother a few
vears ago She was handsome girl and
was graduated with high honors In her
native town. She was talented musician
iaud was having an expensive wardrobe
made which she was to wear in her de-
but al the Nathan Hale School concert
here next month
For A couple of years broker named
uerkenrath who is said To have an Office
at No Wall street. New York. and be-
Ievod IN live i'm the suburbs OF that city,
has been coming to New London occasion
.,IIv and calling on Miss Leach. Among
ber acouaintances IT was thought the pair
were engaged and would soon be married.
uerkenrath arrived from New York Fri
dav evening about s O'Clock, and Miss
zach met him at the station. They were
coon at the station again Saturday, wnen
the broker returned to New York on the
l2:J0 express.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
PHONE TALK BY ROOSEVELT
Will Give Long Distance Ad.
dress at Dinner for Shongut.

with metal clasps over their heads and
the receivers at their ears in regular
telephone girl fashion. the guests AT the
dinner to be held tonight in honor of
Corener Jacob Shongut the Bronx leader
OF the Bull Moose herd. at Fleschmann's
restaurant. Prospect and Westchester ave-
nues. Will listen to a speech from TheO-
dore Roosevelt over the telephone. Colo
mel Roosevelt will be unable to attend in
person. but rather than disappoint the
guests decided to make his address In this
fashion.
The colonel's speech will he the first on
the programme. On the chair Of each
guest will hang the paraphernala for use
during his talk After several toasts
TO the guest of honor the first speaker will
arise fsuratively speaking. by calling the
chairman on the long distance wires
Each guest will then don his outfit and
strain his ears for Roosevelt's message.
There will be applause, as al any other
like affair, and arrangements will he
made so that the Bull Moose leader can
hear IL at his end of the wire Other
speakers will be Controller William A.
PrendelGast. Douglas Robinson, state
chairman of the Progressive party !;
Francis w. Erd. county chairman: John r.
Gleed, leader of the Progressive forces of
the negroes and ex-Deputy Attorney
General James A. Donnelly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
FIREMAN'S LEGS BROKEN
Crushed in Ladder When He
Turns Truck Short.

Sitting on the tiller seat OF Hook anu
Ladder No 20 as ii dashed out OF 's
quarters i'm 13Sth street, near cypress
avenue. The Bronx, at o'clock yester-
day afternoon. Fireman Michael keegan
miscalculated the distance necessary Tor
the massage Of the truck. The rear emu
of an extension ladder caught in the sac
of the engine house entrance, and be-
fore the ladder broke the iiremans legs
which were dangling in space between
the rungs, were broken. keesan was
hurried To Lincoln Hospital, where MS
condition is serious.
/. The hooks on the end OF the ladder hah
caught i'm the iron upright at the side or
tn. entrance. The horses were pulling
hard. and koegan's legs. hanging square
Is between two rungs OF the ladder. were
snapped IN a flash. The impact of the
fjremans legs against the rungs OF the
ladder was sufficient TO break the IRON
hooks which were caught in the iron up
right and this saved his legs from I'M
mediate amputation. for II the hooks had
not broken Keegans legs would nave lcen
torn Off. A.,
Eeecan fell unconscious among the
ladders. Captain John Gerrity stopped
the horses Fireman Auer was LETT Win
Eeegan and the other iremen continued
to answer the alarm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
WOMEN PICKP0CKETS BUSY
Long Island Shoppers Panic
stricken Over Recent Thefts.

Women from all parts of Long Island
who do their shopping in Brooklyn ana
Manhattan are complaining Of the pres
encc Of pickpockets, who single out coun-
try folk and so many robberies have been
reported within the last few weeks That
many OF tie women are panicstrickcn
about venturing from home with any
amount of money in their possession.
Among the thefts reported within the last
few days is the loss of si5 by woman
living in Queens. whose purse was taken
from her handbag by tall woman
dressed In dark furs. who followed her
from one store 10 another, and while she
was busy examining some lace opened her
handbag and made away with her purse.
In boarding a s-you-enter" car
another woman reports she was held up
between two young men, one Of the
men was paying his fare and was quib-
bling with the conductor about his change.
while the other man. who was croWdinS
forward, was crying To those ahead 10
hurry When the woman goeout OF the
lam she was minus her pocketbook con-
tanning $35.
Whether there is an epidemic of hefts
going on or whether they have Just
struck Long Island women we do not
know" said woman well versed in the
panic that has seized Long Island shop
pers, but we have decided that there Is
only one safe way to shop. That Is 10
take along just money enough In pay
your carfare and luncheon and have your
goods sent home co. II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
MOOSE FIGHT PRIMARY LAW
Will Draft Bill of Their Own
Outlined in Pamphlet.

In an eight-page pamphlet entitled of
| fetal Proposal of the National Progress
sive Party of the State of New York for
Direct Primary Law" issued yesterday.
the Progressive party comes out with an
attack on the present direct primary law
and offers by way Of substitute a meas
ure that permits a designation of candi-
dates for statewide officers. from Gov
ernor to State Engineer and Surveyor, by
the state committee and making il man
datory that all other candidates be put on
the primary ballot by petition only.
To prevent. as the pamphlet has it, "a
| narrow majority of the state committee
from riding roughshod over any sub
stantial opposition minority of the
committee, amounting to % per cent, has
| the right to designate candidates also
The Progressives announce themselves
| In favor of the Office group form of ballot,
| similar 10 the one used in other states
having the direct primary. They would
thus prevent any candidate from apprO-
priating a party emblem. and the names
of the candidates would be rotated 80
that each name would have the top space
I in the group. on approximately an equal
/ number II ballots The final paragraph
of the pamphlet reads as follows:
! The soundness and workablencss of this
| Progressive bill, compared with the pres
I ent law, may be graphically summed mp
/ by comparing our proposed primary bal
! lot, having two party offices TO be voted
/ for with the present enormous ballot,
! having often as many as five hundred
/ party offices TO be voted for,
The Progrcssivcs have no desire to in
trench their leadership behind fourteen
| foot ballots. and are ready and willing
TO submit to such regulation ds this by
! the state.
The ideas incorporated i'm the pamphlet
will he drafted into bill and introduced
at Albany The chairman OF the commit
! tee which will draft the measure is Ar
! thur &. Ludington. of this city. Others
on the committee are Joseph Bondy. Of
Syracuse; William w Kelley Of Water
town; II. l.. Y. Porter Of Jamestown:
Wallace Thayer. of Buffalo, and Earle S.
Warner. of PhelpS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
FIREMAN HAS BAD FALL
Stumbles and Drops Into Cellar
at Williamsburg Blaze.

Fireman Charles j. Green attached TO
Engine Company ZIG, in Williamsburg, fell
down a flight of stairs while at work at a
fire in the cellar of the four story brick
tenement dwelling at No. 35l Broadway
early yesterday and several other fremen
became unconscious from smoke while
rescuing MIN.
Patroman Boyle. of the Bedford Avenue
station.t discovered the fire in the cellar.
beneath the store of dyer and cleaner.
The front door of the dwelling was an
locked. and when Boyle got i'm he found
the halls filed with smoke The patrol
man turned in an alarm and then made
his way through the smoke arousing he
families and helping them down the hre
escapes to the street.
When the fremen arrived all the ten
ants were out and Green started for the
cellar He lost his balance on the stairs
and fell t. the bottom. He was insensible
when dragged out. His left shoulder WAS
djslocated and at the Eastern Districi
aSspital. where ne was taken. ID was
found that he vas badly injured inter
nalIy.
The police have Informed Fire Marshal
Brophy that the fire was suspicious.
There will be ali investigation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
.bENSEL LEADS
COKE RAIDERS
Continued from first page.

sci and Masterson were engaged in ear
| nest conversation for half an hour, ana
| it is believed she gave them valuable
| information.
! The Clark woman was convicted OF
| having cocaine in her possession I'VE
months ago. and received a suspended
sentence upon condition she leave the
city and be treated. After the talk
with her she was taken from the sta-
| ton house by a detective, ana Wlth
| DR.. Bensel and Masterson training pe-
hind, pointed out half dozen places
where she said dope" could be bought
without any trouble. These places
will receive the attention of DR.. Ben
sci in the near future.
Some of the places were known to
him already through reports made 10
, him by Masterson. who has practically
lived i'm the neighborhood for the iast
month. making the two restaurants
his Headquarters. He posed as PICK
pocket from Philadelphia in MS deai.
incs with the cocaine users, nearly ALL
OF WnOnl are tIltIiiidl'' III i"~N
grew so intimate with two cocaine
sniffers who had a burglary In view
for last Monday night, that he was IN
vited TO get in on the trick.
1t was in one of the restaurants ne
learned Of the Cocaine King VINO
has adopted a new ruse to dispose OF
cocaine. He hit upon the plan OF
putting deck" in newspaper ana
users of the drug who know the boys
ask for Decent paper. The Cocaine
King" employs about twenty-five
newsboys many of them users OF the
drug, and pays them Oh commission
basis, giving them five cents for every
deck" they sell. ''deck' is sold
for - cents. and since there is not
quite five cents worth of cocaine in
il. the profit TO the Cocaine King Is
H. cents on every package.
After the raids DR.. Bensel SAID
that with the necessary amount OF
money the city could be rid of the CO.
canc vendors. but that with the pres
ent financial limitations he can do
very little. But this little he Will do.
and other sections of the city where
cocaine is sold on the street Will soon
be visited 10y the sanitary superin-
tendent and a cleanup made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
ROADS WOULD ARBITRATE
Willing to Submit Firemen S
Demands to Board of Seven.

Federation OF their willingness to sub
NIT to arbitration the demands of their
locomotive firemen for increased wages
and better working conditions is con-
tanned i'm q statement issued Yesterday on
behalf Of fifty-four Eastern railroads. The
10000 members Of the Brotherhood Of Lo-
connective Firemen and EnGinemcn en-
ployed by these roads. after the suspcn-
sion recently Of protracted negotiations
between their representatives and a COM
mittee Of managers. are taking a strike
vote.
In their statement the railroads take
exception to a quoted statement by repre-
sentatives of the flrcmen that their re-
port of the recent conferences contained
evidence that the responsibility for
failure 10 arbitrate all matters in con-
troversy (and thus avoid the turmoil In
cidental to a strike ballot and the dis
tress that must result from strilie) rests
upon the railroads and not upon the loco
motive fremen."
In reply the roads in their statement
declare they have signifcd 10 the men a
willingness TO grant certain increases Of
wages and to apply to the firemen the
conclusions of the arbitration board which
settled the recent differences between the
roads and their engineers. In addition,
the statement declared:
THE railroads are prepared TO arbitrate
the present case independently by board
of five or seven men appointed by some
such disintercsted authorities as Chief
Justice White of the United States SUI
preme Court and DR.. G. =. Nell, United
States Commissioner Of Labor. as was
done In the engineers case
The fremen who are voting are mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen. and ten thou
sand engineers on these roads. who have
been promoted from the ranks Of firemen
but still remain in the fremen's brother
hood. will strike with the firemen in case
strike is declared. The result Of the
vote is TO he announced about Febru-
ary 10.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
MUST WASH MILK BOTTLES
Householder Faces Penalty in
Keeping Them Uncleaned.

Unclean milk reccptacles arc as danger
Gus to the community as burglary tools
or Knockout drops. says the Department
of Health Monthly Bulletin Two i'm
portant court decisions are reviewed, one
on unclean milk receptacles and the other
on slaughter house odors. In both IN
stances the health authorities won their
cases.
The decisions have settled the validity
Of specific provisions Of the Sanitary Code.
The code forbids any person to receive
or have in his possession any such recep-
tacle which has not been washed after
holding milk or cream. or which Is unciean
i'm any way This means that mix re-
ceptacies must be cleaned by consumers.
1t is pointed out that these two cases
illustrate again the ultimate dependence
of the Department of Health on the at
titude of the courts for the purpose OF
safeguarding the public health
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
TWO LITTLE GIRLS VANISH
Bronx Schoolmates and Police
Search in Vain for Sisters.

Watching the entrances Of moving piCt-
urc shows and inquiring OF passersby.
nearly hundred children of Public School
10. at Eagle avenue and East ls3d street.
The Bronx. spent Yesterday afternoon AMI
evening searching for two missing school
mates Hannah and Frances Dorgan. who
disappeared from i'm front of their home.
at No 33t2 Third avenue. ut noon. Up 10
late hour neither the children. the fran
tic parents nor the police Of the Nor
risania station had any clew.
Although the two little girls were of
about the same height and near the same
age-IIannah eight years old and Frances
eleven years cld-and were dressed near
Is exactly alike. no one could remember
seeing them any time in the afternoon.
1t seemed impossible to the police that
they could have been lost, as both the
children and their parents are well known
IN the ucighborhood.
shortly before noon Yesterday Mrs. Dor
gan dressed the children I'm blue dresses.
white stockings and patent leather shoes
before she began getting ready Sunday
dinner. Her husband. James Dorgan,
clerk, was at home at the time. While
preparing the meal little Frances asked
permission To go with Hannah to the
street I'm front of the house. A short
time later Mrs. Dorsan went to call them,
but they were not in sight.
When an hour later the children had
not appeared, Mr. Dorgan told the police
of the Morrisania station. BY this time
the news had flown about the neighbor-
hood and when he returned tn his home
ne found great crowd of school chill
dren awaiting him. When they were told
Of the disappearance they Immediately
started thorough search, but with no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
HADLEY WOULD RECALL
BULL MOOSE TO FOLD
Missourian Wants Reunion of
Regular and Progressive
Republicans.
URGES OLD PARTY REFORM
Former Governor Says G. o. P.
Need Not Sacrifice Any of It's
Principles to Attract
Boilers Back.

Herbert :. Hadley. former Governor OF
Missouri. and one of the Spokesman for
the Roosevelt delegation at the Chicago
convention last June. but who did not
support the third party ticket, is the
author of an article in this weeks issue
Of 'Harper's Weekly entitled. How
Shall the Republican Party BE Saved
To preserve il. Governor Hadley, con-
tenos. union between the old Repubi-
can party and those who left il for the
Progressive cause must be effected. 1t Is
his opinion. however that those who
heeded the call of the Bull Moose cannot
be expected TO return unless methods by
which the affairs of the Republican party
are conducted and its delegates selected
are altered so that the will Of the major
ity will be recognized at all times. lie
also recommends that the reunion OF the
old Republican forces be made before the
next national convention.
The fact that more than 10000 voters
refused 10 vote the Republican ticket in
1872" Mr. Hadley states. who voted ii
in 1905. and that there were fewer votes
cast for Roosevelt and Taft in 1912 than
for Taft i'm 1905 or for Roosevelt in 1904,
are facts that not only justify. but de-
mand. an earnest consideration, upon the
part of all those who wish to see the Re
publican party continue TO endure and
succeed. Of the conditions which produced
this result and as TO what can be done To
correct them" The former Governor con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
CAMPANIA BEATS SAVOlE
Cunarder and Frenchman IN
Seesaw Race Across Atlantic.

TWO old flyers OF the sea whose speed
records have been overtopped these hVe
years arrived here yesterday after what
'ne passengers thought was desperate
race to port. They were the Cunarde'
'ampania and the French liner La SaNoie.
The English vessel being the faster. over
hauled the Savoie and beat her into port
The Campania left Liverpool at p. ~
on January IS and went up TO queens
'o"n for the Irish mail. She did not pass
paunfs Rock until Sunday noon Mean
"hile her French rival, which left Havre
la' " a. M. on the same day. travelled
n,estward as fast AZ The weather would
.mails got lead OF a hundred miles OF
the campania