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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17
HEALTH OF THE CHILDREN.


We seriously doubt if there are not
hundreds of things of far more impor-
ance in the schools than medical in
;pection for the children, but since
his thing has been provided for, and
since it is certainly measure which
means good in many directions, it
ought to have the attention of the
proper Authorities.
When the schools are in session
many a little one subjects others to
his ills and many a sound little body
is first affected by troubles arising at
the schools. 1t is a commingling of
'ife which makes it doubly easy for
one little fellows troubles to spread
to every other playmate and class
mate.
The medical profession contends
that inspection should be broadened
ma extended until every school child
n the state is reached by it, Strip
ping the subject of all sentiment, it
not right to bring children into the
world, physicians say, and let them
become crippled or killed by causes
hat can be prevented. Children who
i've in cities or towns where medical
Inspection exists, and those who live
in counties like Glynn, Floyd, Irwin,
lift, Dougherty that have adopted
the Ellis Public Health law, which
provides for medical inspection for
country school children, have a much
better chance for life and will have
very much better chance in life than
do those children who live where no
provision is made to protect them
against the ravages of disease.
If child is in public school and
is found to be suffering from a dis
ease or a correctible defect the par
ents should be Immediately notified of
the existing condition. They will
gladly take such steps as are within
their means to have the defect prompt
y corrected. This should be done
for the benefit of the child, for the
benefit of the other children and for
the benefit of the tax payers
A sound mind seldom exists except
in sound body. and it usually costs
more to educate sickly child than
it does healthy one. Healthy chill
dren are bright and quick to learn.
sickly ones are dull and not only back
ward themselves but hold their class
es back. Society is as much respon-
sible for a childs body as it is for
child's mind, and society will be only
partly performing its duty until it
gives to. both mind and body their
due proportion of attention.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17
GOVERNMENT TO BUILD
OWN ARMOR FACTORY

Washington, Sept. 14--The govern
ment will construct its own armor
plate factory, in the opinion of naval
officers. When hearings on the ques-
ton of the selection of a site for the
proposed $11,000,O00 armor plant were
resumed at the navy department to-
day no offers for the sale of private
plants had been made and it was be-
lieved that none would be made.
Additional offers of sites were
made before Secretary Daniels and
other naval officers today. Advantage
of Rhode Island cities were urged
first The claims of more than a hun
dred middle and eastern cities al
ready have been presented.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17
BUSINESS AGAIN.

Cordele is coming TO be one of the
vest business communities in all
outh Georgia. The business of the
resent fall is going to outstrip so far
nything that was ever done here UNI
i the business man who makes com
arisons will have to pinch himself to
scertain whether it is a dream. Not
ne out of ten has expected half the
usiness that has been showing itself
ready and the next three months
romise a great deal
A steady outward evidence of com
lercial strength is prevalent. Oc
asionally through the past summer
lie business inquirer could find curb
tone gossiper or a goods box warmer
GUESSING" the town, but that thing is
OF stylish any more. There is not
business in town but whose owners
nd operators are so busy that it is
ften very difficult to get away with
alf the business calls in a day.
There are a number of larger bus
less houses and manufacturing con-
erns here whose strength is begin
ing to loom on the commercial hori
IN of south Georgia. Some of them
re doubled in strength in the past
NO or three years, and their advance
now even more rapid. There ap-
ears business for everybody and Cor
.ele is in every sense of the word a
cry busy town.
But there is not enough. There is
bundant room for more business and
hose who are here to take care of it
would smile broadly if they knew more
business is scheduled to come and is
coming. The industrious establish
rent.-the men who work for it,-are
going to find themselves more than
lgreeably surprised and strengthened
BY the great increase of business,
Some of them will have to double
force and enlarge to take care of what
is coming. The next five years will
witness a doubling of the commercial
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

strength of this center in business if
development is permitted to go it's way
undisturbed.
That short period of time will reveal
the hustler with the most of the gain.
It is a day when the goods box warmer
will be lost in the scramble. The
Fashionable hurry of business life will
sweep on past him. Cordele is going
To build strong in many lines,-new
lines. The old business enterprises
are promised much, and all along the
line the worker will be the winner.
Our only impending danger may
rest in our becoming satisfied with
The increases that naturally fall in.
If we do this, our commercial growth
will be stunted Cordele as trading
center. as a commercial town, is go
ing to amount to in the end what the
individual concern amounts to. The
long line of prosperous stores and en-
terpr:ses of the city are in reality the
city itself. The hustling business men
If the community collectively repre-
sent all that there is in the business
life of the town. They are the men
who must go out and fight for the bus
ness. They are the men who make the
own felt in the commercial world and
their success will be the only success
he town can call it's own.
While the time is opportune we
ought to be out after it. There never
will be a better time for broadening
our trade interests. If we become a
anger center, our individual concerns
md our business men must lay the
plans for bringing new business. Let
is be after everything that can be
lad That will make us strong. The
commercial foundation is laid for a
busy important center. Our work
will count more now in the season of
growth. Let us be at it with great
energy
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

The Albany Herald has the happiest
full-column editorial about Frank
Parks reelection to congress over
Gene Cox of it's lifetime. Dougherty
went for Cox, but Park victory was
the thing and the race got so hot we
imagine one could see it in the blue
ETHEREAL. 1t is not CoX's defeat that
we lament, yet we know and appre-
ciate him as a friend. 1t is not
Frank Parks victory that we care
so much about, but, withal, he is a
splendid public official. 1t was the
Herald's single handed scrap we were
watching. and, bless your bones, it
was scrap. Our heartiest congrat-
ulations!
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

Time is a great leveler. 1t is going
to take time more than anything else
fully to reveal the dangers. Time
swings the pendulum as surely one
way as it does the other The good
people of Georgia do not often miss
their aim. They are not committed
to the incendiary prejudices that
strike at good men for public office.
The printshop at Thomson has more
nearly dictated terms to the politicians
Of Georgia this time than it has be-
fore. Walter George never called at
Hickory Hill for his credentials. 1H
dit not have the time, and he didn't
feel that he ought to do that, When
the clans asked for the O. X. it was
bungled somewhere in transmission or
deliberately misstated at the start and
George scarcely cast a shadow Wher-
yer it vas possible to circulate the
lews of his alleged Catholic affilia
ion. 1t is certain that north Georgia
Has told that George was a Catholic.
There will be other fires burning.
When they are lighted on the hills
# old Georgia there will be other
,lans, clans whose purpose will be
0 wrest their own affairs from I'M
lean hands. These will be clans bent
n filing their high Offices with men
apable of doing the most good for
he greatest number of people.
Walter George must fight now in
he convention as the fourth man,
whereas, all south Georgia, political
rejudices aside, know he is qualified
every way for the Office he has ask
d of the people of the state.
When the Hickory Hill method has
cached it's fullest force, it will be
rought to the door of every voter of
Georgia. In Dooly, Ben Hill, Crisp
nd Wilcox counties the voters must
now already what it means, for Judge
;eorge is known in these counties Of
is circuit as a man who loves the
FORK he is doing. He studies the law
urely as a devoted jurist and we
oubt seriously if the Court of APP
,eals could have a better man in
II the state. Our people know him
nd our voters, almost to a man. ap-
reciate his work
. The strange yard stick this new
olitical code, will find its way into
ur midst again. 1t will be as impos-
ible as moving the mountains to
.ame any man who goes out without
redentials from Hickory Hill, no mat
er what his qualifications.
Don't talk to us about Catholic
tome! A new Rome is on our poll
ical sky. You who won and you
ho lost, answer our query, will An
lent Rome's edict ever be felt in
Georgia as the edict from Hickory
ill has been felt in the past week?
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

Almost as weak as Candidate
Hughes is ExPresident Taft in his
reasons why President Wilson should
not be reelected. If ever there was
evidence in the republican ranks that
they have no excuse, no anything on
which to base their claim to the office
over Wilson, it is manifested in the
public utterance of both Taft and
Hughes. They do not make Roadway.
Neither of them can get up steam
enough to be heard a block away in
the business world. Nothing like it
under the sun!
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

Published Every Wednesday and Sun
day by Dispatch Publishing Company.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

The Macon News says: 1.-THE In
diana farmer who started to market
with ten non-laying hens, only to
find on arriving in town that nine of
the hens had made peace offerings
IN the form of new laid eggs, had the
light idea of punative expedition.
His bluff worked. Whereupon he very
properly Grated the repented hens
back to the farm to give them one
more chance to establish permanent
and productive peace"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

When Mr.. Dorsey announced for
governor we said that he would
run a good race, and the latest re-
turns up to the time of going to
press indicate that we were quite
correct in that statement.-Haw-
kinsvil1e Dispatch and News.
Easy now! Seems to us we say
some very good looking Harris "argyn
ment' in the Dispatch and News be
fore the primary. No side stepping
Stand up like man.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

We could not tell the truth and say
we are satisfied with the show down.
But we can say we hope Hugh Dorsey
will make a good governor and we
mean it. If he succeeds, he will need
the support of all the people. Well
be there along with the others trying
to help every good cause he may have
to fight for.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

The burning of costly courthouse
and the destruction of valuable re-
cords at Decatur is said to be the out
come of strife resulting from Tues
days election. A near homicide re-
sulting from a shooting ARRAY be-
tween two prominent Twiggs county
citizens at Jeffersonville Wednesday
is another outcome of Tuesdays pri'
mary. These are but election ways
too dangerous for the safety of proper
ty and human life.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17
MANY BILLS DIED IN HOUSE.
Only Small Fraction of Those Pre-
scented Became Laws.

Washington, Sept. 14-During the
session of congress just closed IT,
500 bills and 642 resolutions were in
troduced in the House. Of these, 252
bills became laws, and 33 public res
olutions were adopted, in addition to
$50 private bills and resolutions pass
ed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

One, two, or, say three, months af-
ter Dorsey becomes governor he will
have to part company with Tom Wat
son. AS governor, Hugh will have
to be "for" and Tom is always "agin"
and then what? Here's hoping Hugh
will sit right on the job
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17
RAlLIFF KILLS NEGRO WOMAN

Thomaston, Sept 14.-Louiella
Hobbs, negress, was killed by Len
Kersey, a constable at Atwater disI
trict last night The bailiff was seach-
ing the house for negro man when
the woman attacked him. He shot her
in self-defense No arrests have been
made.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

The Governor will not find it easy
to name a successor to Judge Joseph
Henry Lumpkin who will be able to-
grace his place as associate justice
of the state supreme court as we'll as
did this able jurist for twelve years.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-17

If the people of the Fifth congress
soinal district named the better man
for office, w. w. Larsen must be a
man in and out Of Office and some
thing unusual must have occurred or
else the new man is some humdinger
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
CHAPPEL'S CROP
BULLETIN, NO.

Des Moines, May a. The weekly
bulletin of the Iowa weather and crop
service for the week ending May %:
The week was unseasonably cool,
the average temperature being about
seven degrees below the normal. Frost
occurred from one to three nights and
ice formed in many localities on the
morning Of the eighteenth. The rain
fall was ample in all districts and ex-
cessive in many localities, especially
in north central and northwestern
counties. Showers on the afternoon OF
the twenty-first were accompanied by
destructive winds in portions of Polk,
Jasper and Marion counties, and did
considerable damage to trees and
buildings. Rains have further delayed
corn planting and blowing and cold,
wet ground is causing slow growth OF
early planted and poor termination Of
late planted corn. Some replanting is
being done on account of insect injury
and poor seed. More winter wheat
plowed or disked and ground planted
to corn. Other small grain, grass anG
truck doing very well. Frost did some
damage to tender vegetation and straw
berries, but injury was generally slight
and Strawberries still give promise of
big crop. Tree fruits generally good
but apples will be lighter than last
year. Stock is thriving on pasture.
Geo. M. Chapel, Director
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
ROWAN SUFFERS
FROM ODD DISEASE

Knoxville, May 24-Miss Anna Nc
Kern, who for the last four years has
had charge Of the dining room OF the
state inebriate hospital here, is now at
Mount Sinai hospital, Milwaukee, suf'
fering from the rarest known human
ailment-H disease of the
lymphatic glands.
Miss McKern left here in March to
take treatment at the Mayo hospital
at Rochester, MINI. Surgeons there
refused to operate upon her, telling
her there was not one cnance in a
million that she would live year
They told her only one surgeon in the
United States ever attempts to treat
such cases and he is the one at the
Mount Sinai hospital. At that insti.
tuition there are only five cases OF the
disease under observation.
II is said that there has been only
one other case of Hodgkin,s disease
Ia Iowa, that of Samuel Trent, who
died Of It at Knoxville in 1913.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
MABEL FR|TCHLE
IS GIVEN $1,000
JURY STAYS OUT TWO DAYS AND
"a NIGHT AND THEN AWARDS
rHREE.FoURTHs AMOUNT.

The Jury in the case Of Mabel
Fritchle vs.. the Western Union Tele
graph Co., after being out since 1875
o'clock Monday morning, = returned a
verdict in the district court at Tau
o'clock Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Fritchle sued for $4,000, claim
ing that she and her sister, Mrs. Ear
Clark, were damaged to that extent
when the company failed to transmit
message to them, and the jury gave
her $500 and interest from Deem
Der 81, 1914
The motion for a new trial in the
case Of Charles Peterson VS.. the Phil
lbs Coal Co., has been set for Satur
day afternoon at 1870 o'clock. Judge
mont for 500 on a verdict has been
ordered in the case of c. G. Maddy VS.
Belle Prevulsky.
Gertrude Thompson has. been ad
Judged neglected and delinquent
child and will be taken to Mitchellville
soon. In the case of c. E. Miller vs.
j. 8. Reno, the defendants motion e
apportion costs has been overrule1
and a Judgment ordered in favor of the
plaintiff for $3.50, the amount on the
verdict. "'s .'.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
ENGINEERS TO ALL
HAVE POSITIONS

Ames, May PITTS not case OF
the engineering graduate hunting a
position this. year, but of the position
hunting the engineer" says G. r.
Nichols of the engineering division OF
Iowa State college. There is big
ger demand for engineers at Iowa
State college this spring than any
year heretofore"
Practically all of the engineers who
will graduate from Iowa State col
lege in June are already placed in good
positions for the coming year. with a
lot of good positions left over. The
greatest call comes for civil, mechani-
cal and electrical engineers. 81 could
place half dozen more men in ex-
cellent positions" says H. F. Stanley
of the department of ceramic engin-
eering.
Due to extraordinary demand and
consequent dearth of engineers. rou-
tine positions are offering starting
wages SIS to $40 higher than usual.
Iowa State college graduates a class
of eighty engineers this June, an in
crease of six men over last year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
HILLS BORO.

M. E. Harlan Of Fairfield came down
Friday evening for visit with friends
and neighbors.
School closed Friday . with a picnic
dinner which was held in the basement
of the M. E. church on account OF the
chilly weather. An excellent program
was given at the opera house Thursday
evening to crowded house. The pupils
Of the primary and intermediate grades
gave an operetta which was well rem
dered and showed considerable ability
among the pupils and much hard work
from the teachers. An advertising stunt
by the pupils Of the high school was
good also. =, .4.a.., 80. ..,s.~
Gilbert Duncan who has been sick the
past three weeks went to Ottumwa on
Wednesday for medical treatment
Mr.. and Mrs. Rex Carter, Of ST.. JOS
eph, Mo-, are visiting at the John Car
ter home. st- 49,. ....,..
A Decoration day program Is being
prepared for May 80.
The Hillsboro chautauqua will be
held July II to 21 inclusive.
Miss Wilma Merrick, teacher Of the
intermediate grade here the past two
years, left Friday evening for Short
visit in Quincy ILL.,, before returning to
her home in Corydon.
Mr.. Wump was seriously injured in
his blacksmith shop by his gasoline en-
CINE. ..rt.-|
]. D. Robbins returned on Friday
from the Ottumwa hospital.
Ed Lee spent Tuesday in Ottumwa-
Curt Lee purchased the livery barn
Thursday of this weke from John Page
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
MAY HAVE SHORT
COURSE IN BAKING

Ames, May PA short course for
bakers Is now under consideration by
the engineering extension department
at Iowa State college. If plans are
carried out this will be one of the
very few courses offered along this
line in the country. E
Although no definite arrangements
have as yet been made it Is hoped that
the weeks special course of study can
be held at Iowa State college In con-
nection with the regular Ames short
course next winter.
The science of baking is coming to
be recognized over the country as de-
manding special technical training.
-Four schools of baking now exist in
Chicago, offering three and six months
courses Some special phase OF bak'
Ing will constitute the first course Of
fered at Iowa State college.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
CHARLTON.

DR.. Dora McAfee left last evening for
visit in Oakdale with her sister Mrs.
Chas. Stranger who is receiving treat
mentHn the sanitarium there.
Mrs. Jas. Kelley returned Thursday
from Ottumwa where she underwent an
operation at st. Joseph's hospital a
few weeks ago. --. 49,. --u.
Mrs. w. E. Young departed Thursday
for Ness, Kansas, where she formerly
resided and where she will spend a
few weeks with her children.
Mrs. G. G. Wheeler and little daugh-
ter Marjorie visited friends in Lucas
yesterday.
Mrs. John Haslach and Miss Rather
in White Of Melrose returned home
yesterday after a visit with the form
er's mother Mrs. Laura Bellman and
sister Mrs. Clyde Pickerell.
Leonidas Baker went to Centerville
to spend week with his daughters
Mrs. Lee Fridley and Mrs Guy Gilcrest.
Mrs. A. Stephenson Is spending a
few weeks with relatives in Abba,
Blakesburg, Ottumwa and other points.
Msr. J. F. Thomas and Miss Esta
Roberts visited in Ottumwa yesterday
with Mrs. Allen Denney who recently
underwent an operation there.
Mrs. S. E. Hoover left yesterday for
visit with relatives in Adrain, ILL.,,
where she formerly resided. She Is the
mother of Mrs. Frank c. Scott.
Miss Elsie Danner accompanied tn
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
EDDYVILLE.

Mrs. S. c. Martin of Oskaloosa and
Mrs. Clark of Washington are visiting
this week at the D. J. Reese home. :.
Mrs Chas Bonham of .keokuk and
Mrs. c.. G. Langston Of Hannibal, Mo-,
are guests this week of DR.. and Mrs.
n. S. .Bradfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Palmer are moving
this week from Blue Earth, Mimi, to
Eddyville. They will occupy rooms IN
the Moran tenant property until their
new home is completed.
Miss Pearl Whitman Of Oskaloosa is
visiting this week with her mother Mrs.
Jim Sipes.
The engagement Of Miss Vida Bee
Spencer Of Des Moines to Dilmer Goode
Of Bloomfield has been announced.
Miss Spencer formerly lived in Eddy
vile but has been teaching in Des
Moines for a number of years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard lager and
daughter Catherine of Drakesville, Mr..
and Mrs, Chas. Barnett of Jonesboro,
Ark, Mr.. and Mrs. Simon lager of Ba :
tavia, were in Eddyville Friday attend
ing the funeral Of John jaeger.
John Price, Paul Garrett and Frank
Hoose were recent Oskaloosa callers.
The Sophomore class was very
pleasa ntly entertained by the members
of the freshman class Friday evening
at the home of Miss Goldie Krizer. The
guests wore Japanese costumes and the
house was decorated with Japanese
lanterns. Seventy young people were
present. A two course lunch was serv-
ed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-25
OLlVET.

Mrs. John Crispen and children visit
ed Monday with relatives and friends
in Hardy.
H. ]. Bogard Of Lehigh was in town
Tuesday ON business.
H. Christy Of Eldon was In town on
Thursday on his way to Knoxville to
look for wor kin the mines.
Charles Wafoot of Abel was IN town
Monday on business.
Frank Green and l.. NJ. Hall OF o.
kaloosa were business callers here or
Tuesday. ....,
Mrs. Alice Billings and Rozella Rob
ertson were passengers for Oskaloosa
Wednesday. ...
George P. West Of Peoria. ILL.,, was
in this vicinity this week looking. after
real estate. He thinks Of locating nj
this locality.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Thomas Of Knoxville
visited this week at the w. 7. Tandy
home.
j. A. Allen Of Des Moines was in
town this week on business.
James Hanly. sthe veteran section
foreman for the Rock Island, was In
town Wednesday. He has worked fol
the Rock Island forty years.
Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas were
passengers for Pella Thursday
H. M. Thompson spent Thursday II
Oskaloosa on business. s-.. T.. ~
Mrs. J. L. Billings left Thursday fol
Pella where she will visit. -