The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-10-20

and wise enough to curtail the
next cotton crop by voluntary
agreement. He does not think it
wise or necessary to attempt to
cocrcc the farmer by hastily pass
ed laws, which after all are doubt
full as 10 their consHtutionality.
Governor Earl Brewer, of Missis-
sippi, takes the same position and
will not CALI an extra session as
urged by many people.
Boys and girls of the country
and small towns all over Geor-
gla are entering enthusiastically
into the essay contest recently in
augurated by Mrs. Glenn p. Steed
OF Macon, who offers cash prizes
for the best essays on "Wheat
and Its Uses" to be written by a
boy or girl not living in a city and
who must be unddr 1o years old.
Mrs. Stced hopes by this means
tn 50 interest the farmer boys and
IRIS n the possibilities of wheat
that t!ic,v i'll turn will interest their
'a:cnts, and more wheat and less
c1tion will be planted next wear.
lhe cash prizes are: first, $50.
second, siO, and third, IS, and ali
ESSAYS must be sent to. James
1.ailaway, 72O Forsyth street.
macon, Ga, on or before Noven-
Der 1. No essay must cantain
more than $50 words. Mrs. Steed
hopes for contestants from every
county.
The vice row in Atlanta reach
cd its climax today when Chief
OF Police Beavers declared that
mayor Woodward had repeatedly
granted boarding house licenses to
women against the chiefs re-
commendation. and, acting as
renting agent for railroad had
rented property to be used by a
woman of known disrepute.
The Fulton county grand Jury
followed up the dispute between
the mayorand the chief by declar-
ing its intention to make a thor
ough investigation of the vice sit
uation. Il.
Chief Beavers persists in his
references Ito mysterious "man
higher up"who is responsible for
the agitation to restore The re-
strictcd districts. Mayor Wood
ward says there's nobody higher
than himself and he takes orders
nor hints from nobody.
Newspaper men and their.
friends wereFentertaincu last night
at the Atlanta club by Dr. and
Mrs. George Brown at an inform
al dinner, which was followed by
an exhibition of fancy dancing by
Mrs. Brown and her professional
partner. Mrs. Brown has become
one Of the leading amateur dane
crs or Atlanta, and her dancing
will rank with that of many pro-
;essionals.
A court dispute of the body OF
a dead negro was one of the odd
features of this week. Sam
Tenant, coIored, took out a bail
tToveT iii the municipal court to
recover from a negro undertak-
er, zone dead body, male, med
ium size, color black" as the legal
document read.
The body.is that of Tenants
brother and it is alleged that the
undertaken refused to bury the
corpse until he was given $50 nor
would he give it up TO Tenant,
who had filed q pauper's oath.
"Transitorysfre is the new
est inventiono OF the criminal law
experts, according to a recent bit
of expert testimony by aSlearned a
physician. lt.iis likely to come
in handy in evading the gallows.
A neuratic woman, after pur-
suiiig a man until she had WE eek
ed his home: and driven her own
husband to a divorce. grabbed a
gun and polished off the romance
with murder Then came a hy-
pOthcticaiH question $4,000 words
long, and the expert gives as
Surance that tie shooting was nnf