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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
CHINESE LEADERS
PLEDGE SUPPORT
TO RULER, l.! NORTHUMBERLAND
GAL CONDITIONS OF COUNTRY
SOMEWHAT RELIEVED.

Pckin, June 21.-Gens. Feng Kuo-
Chang, Nj Shih-chung and Chang Hsun
and many other southern military lead
ers have telegraphed 10 President Lii
Yuan-hung assuring him of their sup
port. He is very generally supported
by the Chinese press in all parts of
the republic and there are indications
that the southern provinces will of
licially indorse his administration, al
though they are somewhat slow in
doing so and have made demand for
the removal of certain cabinet mem
bers and advisers before they fall in
line
Strained financial conditions seem
somewhat relieved. The new Presi-
dent has consented to turn over $780,
900 from his own personal savings to
assist in resuming specie payments
on the notes of the government banks.
The quintuple group OF bankers who
arc holding $2O,O0O,00 surplus of the
salt monopoly for the Chinese govern
ment have also shown a willingness to
turn this money into the treasury.
Ii Yuan-hung refused to go to the
palace to take the ohcial oath, and
was sworn into office in his own home
outside the imperial city. The cere,
mony was of extreme simplicity, and
only high officials attended
MOnarchist newspapers seem to be
joining with the republican organs i'll
praising Ii Yuan-hung.
The Ii Yuan-hung administration is
keeping as far as possible away from
the practices of an emperor. Flags
are to be flown at half-mast for TWEEN
ty-seven days in honor of the lamented
president, and all officials are to wear
black bands on their left arms after
the European practice. Official en-
veIopes have black borders half al
inch in width and are sealed with {
black stamp.
Two books are provided at the gates
| leading to the presidential office fol
the registration of foreigners and Chi
nese who call to pay their respects tt
the memory of the dead president.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
HARRIS REFRESHES MIND OF
DORSEY ON CLEMENCY

Atlanta, July Ex-Governor Harris
declared yesterday that he will not
give Ex-Solicitory Hugh M. Dorsey an
other opportunity to side-step the is
sue concerning executive clemency by
claiming that he doesn't recall ask
ing Governor Harris to exercise elem
ency in thirteen cases and waving OBJ
lection to clemency in four others
In his subsequent speeches Govern
or Harris will take the record along
with him and read it, and will read
the letters written by Dorsey while he
was solicitor, asking that clemency be
exercised in behalf of this and that
prisoner.
In his Gainesville speech the gov
ernor said Dorsey was going over the
state denouncing executive clemency
and making it an issue in his cam
paign, while on the other hand the
record showed the facts above-stated
with regard TO seventeen cases.
The ex-solicitor replied at Dawson
and Cuthbert that he didn't recall
that he had ever asked the governor
to exercise clemency.
Yesterday the governor refreshed
his memory" by citing the fact that the
petitions of the ex-solictor are mat
ters of record.
There are two cases in which Hugh
Dorsey petitioned for executive elem
ency that have not been mentioned as
yet by Governor Harris, but his friends
are daily urging him to call them to
the attention of the people as a final
and complete answer to Dorsey's agi-
tation in regard to the "upsetting OF
juries" etc. The governor has been
disinclined to make use of these cas-
es, although the ex-solicitor is directly
| involved in both of them, and his
friends declare it is because of the
governors natural kindness of heart
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

nroyided for the appointment of
Joint legislative board from the state
at large, two members from each
organization, the board to be organ
lied and ready for work sixty days
before the time for the next annual
meeting in 1917. This joint committee
is to have full authority to adopt or re,
iect and measures favored by any one
committee. 1t was also recommended
that the president of the State Farm
ers' Union issue the call for the for
nation of this board. An amendment
which was unanimously adopted along
with the original provisions, provides
that each organization represented in
the aTiliation be responsible for the
cxpenses of the members of its COM
mittee in the joint committee.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
FARMERS UNION AND
LARORITE:S COMBINE
WILL WORK FOR MUTUAL BENE-
FIT ALONG LEGISLATIVE LINES
-To NAME TJolNT COMMITTEE.

MaconasBuly 20.-Delegates from l3o
counties, members of the Georgia
Farmers pnien, assembled at the Ho-
tel Lanie1F TODAY and unanimously de-
cided to conduct the work of the I'M
ion in afIilaation with the Georgia Fed
Grafton of Trades. The different
branches Of the laboS federation were
represented by j. H. Smith, member
of the Legislative committee of the
state fedora tion; .TAll c. Waters, mem
Der OF. the legislative committee OF the
B. Of L. T. and E.; w, c. Pickett OF
the Southern Labor Congress, and
Louis P, Vanguard, president OF the
State Federation of Trades.
A committee from the Farmers I'm
ion, with T. G. Hudson as chairman
was appointed to confer with the Ia
Dor union officials for the purpose OF
drafting a resolution which would pro
vide that the Farmers Union and these
organizations rombine, not merging
n the unions, but working as separate
bodies for the same legislation, which
will be of mutual benefit.
The report of the joint committee
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
10000 FIREFLIES ARE
RELEASED BY CHILDREN

Toxic, July 21-Foreigners witness
ed an unusual and beautiful scene this
month when 10000 fre-hies were re
leased at night by school children be-
fore the Imperia Palace in salutation
of the emperor. The children gath
cred the insects in one of the SUI
burbs, enclosed them in tiny wooden
cages and marched to The palace. At
a signal the luminous insects were set
free flying over the place-a cloud
Of scintillating spots of fire, From
the ancient palace rampant or court
official acknowledge the tribute by
waving a paper lantern, bearing the
imperial crest
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
EXPECTS TO CAPTURE VILLA.

Galveston, July 20.-The capture of
Francisco Villa by cavalry Of the de-
facto government is momentarily eX-
pected, according to a cablegram re-
ceived today by Juan A. Mateos, Mex
tcan consul here The message said
a Villa messenger, captured yesterday
by Carranza troops, told of Villas
whereabouts and that force had been
sent to capture him.
The name of the small town where
the bandit is said to be located is not
given in the dispatch 1t is under
stood to be in the state of Chihuahua
not far from chihuahua city.
The messenger reported that Villa
was i'll and seeking medical aid.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
FLOODS ENDANGERED
PEACH SHIPMENTS

Atlanta, July 22-The Carolina
floods which carried away railroad
bridges came near playing havoc with
Georgia peach shipments and had it
not been for tile quick work Of the
Georgia Fruit Exchange, in conjunc-
ton with the railroads, many cars
would have been lost
All peach business south of Macon
mad to be diverted by way Of Augusta,
and the Atlantic Coast Line, while
business from the Atlanta, Birming-
ham and Atlantic, and from the
Southern to Columbus and William
son, is being sent through Chatta-
nooga, Knoxville and Bristol. There
was full trainload of peaches in At
lanta when the bridges went down.
Manager b. j. Christman of the eX-
change succeeded i'll getting them out
by way of Augusta with only about
three hours delay. The railroads have
made new arrangements with regard
to icing cars, and practically no delay
is now being experienced with the
movement.
The railroad damage came right in
the midst of Georgia's biggest peach
shipments, when they are moving at
the rate of 100 cars d day, and for
while it looked serious, but every
ding has been worked out, even to
the supplying of empty refrigerator
cars which were also cut off from the
east, but have been secured north and
west
On account of heavy receipts of
peaches at New York and Philadelphia,
some coming from Arkansas and Tex
as, there has been a decline in
prices in those markets. The first Of
the week there were eighty cars in
New York of which, however, only
twelve were Georgia Fruit Exchange !
cars. The probabilities are the West |
ern shippers will not go any more
into these markets until the Georgia |
is out of the way.
Georgia's big peach shipments will |
end this week. From then on they
will get gradually less. The total ship
ments this year will be somewhere
close to 5000 cars or slightly over, the |
exchange estimates having been cut
down as the result of the heavy rains.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
BELIEVE CURE FOR BABY
PARALYSIS DISCOVERED

New York, July 21.-Health depart
ment officials and physicians who have
been attempting to discover remedy
for infantile paralysis, showed a keen
interest today in a statement made by
Or. n. Mel. Whitaker of Brooklyn,
that in about dozen cases of the dis
case treated by him, beneficial results
had been obtained from hypodermic
injections of quinine and unreahydro-
Dr.. Whitaker said tonight that this
can be used internally
but that it was preferable to use it as
an injection.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
ONLY BRUISED WHEN
AUTO TURNS TURTLE

Atlanta, July 19.-Mr and Mrs.
Frank Clark, Jr., OF Gainesville, Fla
started to drive home in their automo'
bile today but were back in two hours,
considerably bruised.
"We had just had new wire wheel
put on our car" said Mrs. Clark,
"and out on Stewart avenue it came
off, and the car turned oven on top OF
us. No, we were not badly hurt"
The Clarks had started fro a tour
to the East, but the floods in the
Carolinas stopped tine i'll Atlanta
and they had started home.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
ONLY 60 DRUNK ENNESS
CASES SINCE MAY I

Savannah, July 21.-Daiy reports
fled with The mayor by the police de-
/ arlmcnt show tha, in the eighty days
in which the prohibition law has been
IL force thirtynine arrests have been
made for Drunkenness. Nineteen Of
the thir,yninc arrests have been made
On Sundays, which is said TO show that
lie liquor was oblGined outside of the
DIV
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
ABeEvlLLE COTTON OPENING

Abbeville, July 21.-Mr. E. S. Ham
ilton, who lives in town and farms,
brought il the first open boil of cot
ton yesterday evening.
Mr. Hamilton expects to get bale
Of cotton by August 1.
Abbeville generally gets her first
bale about the 26th to 2Sth of July.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
LIGHTNING HITS CAMP,
KILLS SAVANNAH BOY

Macon, July 21.-7A. D..'Key, of COM
pany D, First infantry, Savannah, was
killed by lightning this afternoon at
Camp Harris, while doing guard duty
during the severe rain and thunder
storm. A. F. Schultz, a Macon soldier,
was rendered unconscious by the same
bolt. The lightning hitgmany houses
and trees in Macon and the rainfall
was $50 inches in less than so min
utes.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
SAVANNAH CLEANS UP
TO PREVENT EPIDEMIC

Savannah July 21.-More than $50
tons of trash from the city's streets
marked the first days work in clean
ing up of the city to prevent the spread
of infantile paralysis to Savannah,
Chief Engineer Conant is determined
to make Savannah "spick and span"
and is sparing no effort TO attain this
end,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
cooPERAcE PLANT DESTROYED

Brunswick, July 21.-A cooperage
plant belonging TO G.. r. Holiday was
destroyed by fire at an early hour this
morning, The plant, which adjoins
The Yaryan Rosin and Turpentine com
vany property. threatened for awhile
to spread to it, The loss is about ST.
800 and is covered by insurance.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

When one of the neighbors get an
automobile the other ncighb0rs sit on
the front porches and observe: 'We
could do it too if we were williAg to
owe everybody in town."
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

Plans to introduce reindeer in the
Peace River valley have failed. The
animals could not stand the attack Of
the bull flies.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

A German scientist has invented q
tiny electric oven, TO be placed on the
J latform Of microscope TO neat or
dry objects that are to be examined.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23

There are at least five libraries i'll
the world which contain more than
100000 volumes each.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-23
Our arEn1er
riendS

Have been kind enough to remember
US with a fine patronage in former
seasons and we feel like we can say
that this is their expression of arprov-
al of our business methods. We are
better than ever prepared to do a large
warehouse business this fail. We
have cur new place in the Greer block
ready 1t is a large place with a new
concrete floor and we are making it an
ideal warehouse site.
We viii be ready to take care of the
business of : wide section and want
the cotton growers to remember us.
We appreciate fair dealing and courte-
Gus treatment too much not to know
what it means to the farmer.Our latch
string is always on the outside. Come
to see us.
H. C. Wheeler & Dickson
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-12-20
JUDGE LAMBDIN i
DIES SUDDENLY

Savannah, Dec 20 Judge w.
w. Lambdin, of the United States
court for the southeastern dis
trict of Georgia, died this after
noon at II 20 o'clock in his cham
bers in the federal building after
an illness of little more than an
hour. The immediate cause of his
death was angina pectoris, which
was brought on by an attack of
acute Indigestion. The Judge,
while going up in the elevator
shortly after 10 o'clock with a
member of the local bar, COM
planned of feeling i'll.
When he reached his office he
was in such pain that he consent
TO have a doctor called.
AT that hour difficulty was ex-
perienced in getting doctor, but
finally DR. Claiborne, of the Ma
rine hospital, reached the sufferer
and applied heroic remedies in the
hope of resuscitating him. The
patient continued to grow worse,
however. until his death. Mrs.
Lambdin, Hal Lambdin, the son
of the judge, and the Judges
daughter were with him when he
died, as was Rev. w. N. Aims
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-12-20
FARMERS WILL
GROW TOBACCO

The agricultural. department of the
a B. and A. reports satisfactory re-
suits in getting farmers. to contract
to grow tobacco under their person
al supervision.
The campaign against the boil wee
vii is centered upon getting farmers
to diversity and tobacco is one Of the
crops that has proven. profitable in
this section. The time for getting
ready" is very near at hand and farm
ers contemplating planting tobacco
are urged to communicate with the
county agent or the A. B. and A. ex-
tension department, so that they may
secure the benefit of their service as
well as having the proper seed fur
nished them.
The following local planters have
agreed to plant the acreage OF tobac-
co and are getting ready to prepare
their seed beds:
G. A. Drexler, 10 acres.
]. B. Huling, acres.
a. L. Huling, acres.
]. L. Dorminey, 20.acres.
w. r. Walker, 10 acres.
Sydney Claire5 acres.
w. NJ Evins, 40 acres.
G.. p. Mingledorff, 20 acres.
]. r. Player, 5 acres.
r. V. Handlcy, 40 acres.
G. T. Young 10 acres.
Lon Dickey and associates, 6S acres.
N Dorminey, acres.
]. N. Swearingen, acres.
]. w. Bollinger. 10 acres
Toe Everitt and associates, so acres.
J. c. Bush, Is acres.
A. l.. Everett 100 acres
Whitley and Barrentine. acres.
DR. L. s. Osborne, 5 acres.
+. F. Stone acres.
j. b. Morris, S acres.
r. o. Stone, acres.
w. p. Hyatt, acres
Miss Atha Myers. who has been
visiting her sister for few days,
leaves Friday for Jasper, Fla, to be
with her parents during the holidays.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-12-20
Christmas In
Newfoundland

If the American countries, none
perhaps has more picturesque
Yuletide rites than little New
J foundland. Even in summer
Newfoundland is seldom a tour
list land-the men who come to
fish or hunt aren't apt to over
throw native customs and in
the winter strangers to the out
post towns are few and far be-
between, wherefore Newfound-
land Christmas remains today
much as it was when the first
settlers to England's oldest col
ony came.
There were the old time chin
ney and the great open fireplace
the fishermen are largely of
English descent, and so there is
the burning of the YuIe log.
During Christmas week. for
example, such fishermen as
were not busted doing their
fishing for the church"-that's
to say. dropping their nets and
bringing their catch to be sold
for the benefit of the village
curate-were wont to dress up
as RUNNERS. Bands of these
strollers would meet at the
homes of the different employ
ers of fishermen, and there were
festivities. ending in dancing.
1t took one back in fancy to
the Old feudal times in England,
for the employers are to these
fishermen as so many lords,
whose slightest request is their
law. Once year at Christmas
tide the discipline is relaxed,
and the lowly fisherman might
even enter the homes Of their
masters and make merry.
There on a settle, beside the
fire, sits the fiddler dispensing
music for the occasion. Host and
hostess stand before the table
and provide the good things.
There are Scotch whisky, port
wine, rum-drinks first, always;
then cake and bread, a whole
ration of bacon-other dainties
galore. Every home in New.
foundland holds open house this
day.
After the feasting the older
folk withdraw to one side to
tell tales of their lives on the
seas. Now and then the parish
priest drops in to wish all the
compliments of the day. The
young folk proceed to dance or
to plan and devise costumes for
the dances to follow. Every
evening there is some frolic
or entertainment ION" in the
towns, and as the days go by
each of the mummers appears
CARRIED in fantastic costume.
But it is not all indoor fun
that they hold in Newfoundland
through Christmas week, bitter
cold though it be. There are
outdoor parties and singing con-
tests, etc.
Along with the fishing for the
church, as already described, it
is quite the custom in the "out-
port" towns for all the villagers
to "chip in" and present the
parish priest with giant load
of wood.-FeliX ]. Koch in Gin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-12-20

worth, pastor OF Wesley Monu-
mental church, who had been
summoned.
Funeral at GAINESVILLE
The funeral arrangements have
not been made, but the interment
will take place in GAINESVILLE the
latter part of the week.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-12-20
GINNER S REPORT

Bales ginned to December Is. 1916
-lO85o,9So.
Ginned to same date last year
10,303,253.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-06-01
HOLD BACK THAT RED
FIRE, SUFFRAGETTES
Votes for Women Killed in
Porto RiCan Bill.

Washington, May 24-The house
struck from the Porto Rican bill by
vote of eighty to fifty-nine, an
amendment designed to grant woman
suffrage to the islands. The bill then
passed without roll call, virtually as
introduced
The vote on the amendment showed
a complete disregard of party lines,
though more democrats than republi-
cans voted against it. 1t was inserted
in the bill by Minority Leader Mann.
The bill as passed gives the Porto
R1can government all of it's internal
revenue, regardless of whether the
goods on which it is paid are used in
Porto Rico or this country.
Heretofore revenues on goods used
in the United States have gone to the
federal treasury.
Property and educational qualifica-
lions are provided for applicants for
citizenship under the measure, and
the employment for children under
fourteen years of age in injurious or
hazardous occupations would be pro-
hibited.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-06-01
GOVERNMENT TAKES
OVER GERMAN FOOD
Entire Supply to Be Collected
and Distributed.

London, May 24.-Advices from Der.
lin say it is announced officially there
that the federal council has authoriz-
ed the imperial chancellor to estab-
lish a new board, which will handle
the entire food problem and be di-
rectly responsible to him.
The president of this board will be
empowered to dispose of all food
stuffs, raw materials and other arti-
cles necessary to the supplying of
food, all fodder and material neces-
sary for the feeding of animals, which
are stocked within the German EN-,
pire.
The authority of the president will
include regulation of imports and ex-
ports and the establishment of max
imum prices. In urgent cases the
president is empowered to send direct
instructions to the authorities of the
federal states. Adolph Tortilowitz
Won Batocki. president of the province
of East Prussia, has been appointed
president of the new board.
The incapacity of certain govern
ment heads and not actual shortage
of provisions is responsible for the
food crisis in Germany, Macmillan
Harden writes in the current number
Of the Zukunft.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-06-01
MURDER EVIDENCE STRONG
Chain About DR.. Arthur Warren Waite
Is Tightening.

New York, May 24-The chain of
evidence by which the prosecution
hopes to send DR.. Arthur Warren
Waite, the young New York dentist,
to the electric chair for the murder
of his wealthy father-in-law, John E
Peck, was frightened link by link by
an array Of witnesses, whose testi.
mony was remarkable for it's direct,
ness. One witness, Joseph Strattler,
a Grand Rapids undertaken, testified
that when Dr. Waite left that city
after taking the body of Mrs. John E.
Peck there, Waite said: "There will
be another funeral in about three
months"
To add to the prisoners discomfi-
ture, Mrs. Margaret Horton, his ''stu-
dio" companion, who, according to
the district attorney, will play con-
spicuous part in the trial, appeared
and occupied seat in the rear of the
courtroom. Waite had to pass direct
ly in front Of her when he was taken
from the courtroom
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-06-01
Explosion Followed Use Of Oil For
Fire Lighting-Dieo Friday Az

ternoon-FuneraI at Vroqua.
Grant County Herald: The common
but careless habit Of lighting fires with
kerosene took it's deadly toll last Thurs
day morning, when Ole Veddum, of
this city, was burned so terribly that
he succumbed to his injuries on Friday
afternoon, and left widow and four
fatherless children.
The Mediums live in an humble
home on North Adams street, where
they have resided since October last.
On Thursday morning Mr. Veddum
started the kitchen fire shortly before
o'clock, and he, according to his NUT
tered statement, found the blaze slow
in igniting. Mr. Veddum took the two
gallon kerosene can and poured oil on
the kindIing wood. AS he did so the
oil ignited and an explosion resulted
that threw the burning oil in large
quantities over his body.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-06-01
MRS. MATTERS IN COLLAPSE
Woman Accused in Fake Baby Case
Refuses to Take Stand,

Chicago, May 24.-The defense in
the trial Of Mrs. Dollie Ledgerwood
Matters and others charged with co :
spiracy rested it's case unexpectedly
without Mrs. Matters taking the wit
ness stand. Following the testimony
of l. F. Dankowski, assistant to Pro
bate Judge Horner, Attorney Joseph
R. Burres approached Mrs. Matter
He asked her a question, and when
she shook her head in the negative.
the attorney turned and addressed the
court: Your honor, the defense
rests"
Mrs. Matters attorney, Joseph B.
Burres, explained that her physical
condition was responsible for her fail
ure to testify.