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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
CRISP MAY NAME
STATE SENATOR
REORGANIZATION OF 18th sENA-
ToRlAL DISTRICT MAY OPEN
WAY FOR LOCAL MAN.

The executive committee of the
fourteenth senatorial district Of Geor-
gia win meet in Cordele on May "a.
The meeting WILDE called at 10 o'clock
BY W. v, Harvard, of Vienna, who is
chairman Of the committee.
In the reorganization of the sena-
tofiaI districts last year the new coun-
ty OF Bleckley was added and Dodge
was removed to another district Had
dodge remained in this district, under
the plan Of rotation in naming the
senators, 1t would have been the time
for that county to name the senator.
The meeting Of the executive commit
tee is being called to determine the
question Of whether or not the coun-
ty If Bleckley shall take the place of
Dodge in naming the senator.
In event it is concluded that Block
ley is not entitled to the naming Of
the senator. the honor will fall to
Crisp county.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
FINE RAINS FELL
ON BURNING CROPS
EASTERN PORTION OF COUNTY
FOR MANY MILES HELPED BY
SHOWERS FRIDAY NIGHT.

An unusual atmosphere Of optimism
surrounds most of the farmers of Crisp
county because of the splendid rains
that fell Friday and Friday night,
breaking a drought of a number of
weeks duration, which had brought
damage especially to the oat and other
grain crops and caused some of the
farmers to feel a bit disgruntled.
While the rains were by no means
sufficient to satisfy the crop needs,
they will be materially helped and just
the mere fact that drouth was broken
is worth something in feeling to the
farmers and others who are dependent
on farming interests.
Owners of gardens or any plot of
earth in this section on which an at
tempt is being made to grow agricul-
turaI products are mended in spirit.
Reports from surrounding towns in
dictate that the rains were quite gem
eral, and sufficient heavy to assure ben
eft to the crops.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
CoRDELE MAN is HoNORED
BY GEORGIA TEMPLARS

Rome, Ca, May 11.-Thomasville to-
day was chosen as the place of meet
ing for the 1917 conclave grand com
mandery, knights Templar, and the
first Wednesday in May as the date.
Invitations also were extended by Val
dosta and Atlanta. Rev. M. Ashby
Jones, of Augusta, was chosen as the
orator for 1917, and Davis Fireman, Of
Savannah, as alternate.
The grand commandery adjourned
this afternoon with the installation of
officers as the closing feature.
At the closing session the election
of officers resulted in the advancement
of r. L. WILLY, of Thomasville, from
deputy grand commander to grand
commander, succeeding B. F. Harde-
man, Of Athens, who has just complet.
ed most successful administration
According to Templar custom, each
of the other officers was advanced one
station and the official corps is now
composed of John w. Murrell, Allan
ia, deputy grand commander; Fred W.
Clarke, Savannah, grand generalissi
mo; Edward X. Farmer, Fitzgerald
grand captain generl; Alva c. Atkins
Cordele, grand senior warden; James
C. Watt, Rome, grand junior warden;
Troy Beatty, Athens grand prelate; M
A. Weir Neon, grand treasurer; Chas,
S. Wood, Savannah, grand recorder;
Charles A. McAllister, Macon, grand
standard bearer; Thomas D. Ridley
Dalton, grand sword bearer, and w. G.
Mea1or, of Gainesville, grand warder
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
TYPHOID VACCINATION
TO PROTECT SOLDIERS

Atlanta, Ga, May Thanksgiving
that President Wilson may at any mo-
ment order them to the Mexican Dor
der for patrol duty to protect Texas
and other border states from raids by
Mexican bandits, members of the Ma
tional guard of Georgia, practically all
of whom stand ready for foreign SER
vice when needed, are taking typhoid
vaccination.
The modern organization of any ar
my devotes as much, if not more, at
tention to the health of the men as to
their equipment with arms and am
munition, and the typhoid vaccination
has been found to be highly efficient
in the United States army as means
of preventing epidemics of this disease.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
ENTHUSIASM SHOWN
FOR BASEBALL HERE

A goodly number Of favorable re-
plies have come I'M response to the
requests to the fans for an expression
relative to semi-professional or all
college baseball club for Cordele dur
ing the following season. With these
replies have come subscriptions for
the club which subscriptions will be
taken in charge by the baseball COM
mittee, F. l.. Bartholomew and Alex
Martin. Enthusiasm beyond the ex-
pectations of the committee is mani
fest, and the prospects for fast team
are very favorable.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
SMITH CASE WILL
GO TO HIGHER COURTS

Atlanta, Ca, May 12.-The United
States circuit court OF appeals in an
opinion handed down Friday morning
granted the application for an appeal
in the fight for the TWO and half
million dollar estate Of James M.
Smith and granted 4 stay Of proceed
ings during the tendency Of tho ap-
peal, which will be heard at the reg
ular term of the circuit court Of ap-
peals in October.
The order directs thai the receivers
appointed last week by United States
District Judge Emory Speer, at Ma
con, who only recently took over from
the temporary administrators the
homestead and property at Smithsonia
of the millionaire, return the property
to the administrators appointed by
the ordinary of Oglethorpe county.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
.CORDELE MAYOR
in PEACE LEAGUE:
ACCEPTS INVITATION TO ATTEND
GATHERING OF NOTED PERSON.
AGES IN WASHINGTON FOR
PEACE CONFERENCE.

Mayor ]. Gordon Jones has an invi
tation to attend the first annual ma,
tional assemblage of the American
branch of the League to Enforce Peace
which will be held at the New Willard
Hotel in Washington May 26 and 81
Ex-President William H. Taft who is
president of the organization, will pre-
side at these sessions.
The purpose of the meeting, as an
nounced, will be to devise and deter
mine upon measures for the establish
ment of league of nations to enforce
peace Mayor Jones has accepted the
invitation to attend as secretary of the
Crisp County Bar Association and is
planning to be in this gathering of I'M
usually prominent personages.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
SALE. Of LOTS
LIVELY At FAIR
MANY LOCAL CITIZENS ATTEND
SALE OF LoTs PUT ON BY
JUDGE WHIPRLE-5oTH BUY
Err AND SELLER WERE PLEASED

A cracker-jack crowd attended the
sale Of lots conducted by Judge Whip
pie Friday morning and the buying
was lively. The entire nineteen lots
went at prices which seemed satisfac-
tory to both buyers and the seller.
Local business men did the bidding
and the property went into the hands
Of several persons who are planning
improvements.
The sale was conducted by Frank
varnadoe in big band wagon in right
up-to-the-minute style. The crowd was
a representative one, and the buyers
were among the best business people
of the community.
The entire sale was but a NANTES
tation of strong faith in the good val
ues that will cling to the property as
an Investment.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
THREE MORE TEACHERS
NAMED FOR SCHOOLS

The only two vacancies remaining
in the faculty of the Northern Heights
school were supplied when the city
board of education held an election
Thursday afternoon at called meet
ing. Miss Kathleen McRae, of Pelham
was elected as teacher in the fourth
grade of this school, and Miss Shell
horse, also of Pelham, was elected as
teacher of the fifth grade
At this meeting Miss Henrietta Lam.
din, of GAINESVILLE, was elected teacher
of English in the O'Neal High school.
Three vacancies remain to be filled in
the ONeal school, teacher of science,
another for mathematics, in the high
school, and another sixth grade teach
err.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
TRUE TO LIFE
VIEWS ON MOVIE
LOCAL PEOPLE AND SCENES AT
PALACE-A NOVEL SHOW FOR
COMING WEEK.

The Dixie Amusement company has
made arrangements with Manager
Cain of the Palace Theatre to inau-
gurate a mammonth pictorial booster
week at this show house. beginning
Monday, May %. Special photograph
ers for the company arrived in the
city Friday and Saturday. They be-
gan work by photographing the chill
dren, young people, business houses
and places and things of interest
throughout the city free of charge.
These pictures will be shown life size
and are greatly enhanced by home sur
roundings.
During the entire week the latest
popular songs will be featured, using
the photographs of children of the
city in many instances to illustrate
them, together with other beautiful
ly colored slides. The singer is an at.
tractive woman and has an excellent
voice.
Snap shot pictures, caught of people
when they were not expecting, will
be shown each night There will be
other interesting features and special
ties that will make the pictorial boos
ter week gala season.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
COCHRAN PLEASED
WITH coRDELE Church

With view of patterning after the
Baptist church of this city in the con-
struction of church edifice at Coch-
ran, Rev. G. w. Garner, pastor, Mr..
and Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Duggan, form
ing a committee from the Baptist
church of that place, were in Cordele
Thursday, investigating the architec-
ture, plans and cost of the local struc-
ture. They were very much impressed
with the building. and it is understood
will recommend the construction Of "a
church edifice on the same order.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
MASS MEETING
FOR COUNTY FAIR
PLANS TO BE WORKED OUT, AT
COURT HOUSE AT II O'CLOCK
MONDAY MORNING.

Farmers from all sections of the
county will attend the mass meeting
Monday morning to be held at the
court house in the interest of coun-
ty fair for Crisp next fall. Judge
George will adjourn superior court,
which convenes on the same day, at
II O'Clock in order that every farm
er and others who might be prevented
because of the court from doing so,
can hear the plans for the fair thor
oughly explained by those who are
promoting the effort. 1t is anticipated
that a plan will be formulated that
will mean the holding of the fair and
making it a magnificent success.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
POLICE CHIEFS
soon To MEET
FORMER coRDELE CHIEF PLANS
FOR STATE CONVENTION TO BE
HELD IN SAVANNAH JULY 5, 6.

L. M. Sumner, president of the Geor-
gia State Association of Chiefs of PO-
lice and Marshals, under authority YES
ted in him by the association, has is
sued a call for the annual meeting of
the association to be held in Savannah
on July 5 and 6.
An excellent program is being ar
ranged by First Vice President Mel
drim, chief Of police of Savannah. Sec
ord Vice President L. e. Brooks, chief
of police of Athens, and Secretary and
Treasurer ]. p. Griffin, of West Point.
They have slated some of the police
heads of Georgia's largest cities for
addresses on this occasion. Discus
sion affecting conditions generally over
the state, new ideas and new princi-
pies will be held.
The initial meeting of the associa-
ton was held during August last year
at Macon Police chiefs, marshals and
other officers from all sections of the
state were in attendance, and the de-
alterations of the body were given
widespread publicity. Being the orig
inator of the plan to organize associa-
ton, L. Nj. Sumner, then chief OF po-
lice of Cordele, was made president.
Among other matters that the asso-
citation passed on was the unanimous
adoption of a resolution, putting ia
boo on all intoxicating drinks at their
meetings and receptions. Notwithsand
ing Savannah's reputation in such in
stances, the president of the associa-
ton states that principle of the body
will be strictly upheld in the approach
ing gathering; that if the new prohi-
bition law has not brought around such
condition as to make strong drinks
at their. meeting impossible, that the
delegates will of their own accord
| make it prohibitive.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
DR. HuoHLETT HEADS
ACADEMY AT OXFORD

Atlanta, May 12.-Bishop Warren
Gambler, chancellor of Emory Univer-
sity who has just returned from a meet
ing of the bishops Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, announces that DR..
A. M. Hughlett will be head of the
Emory University Academy at Oxford.
The academy is now in it's first
school year, having opened last fall.
DR.. Hughlett will take charge as head
master when the second school year
of the academy opens in September.
The faculty of the school of liberal
arts will be strengthened by the adj
dition of several able teachers, by
which means additional postgraduate
courses can be offered in this depart
ment at Oxford.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
DRAWING PLANS
new CLUB HOUSE
LADIES BUSY WITH DETAILS OF
BUSINESS AND WILL SOON GO
FORWARD WITH BUILDING.

Blue prints are being made for the
club house proposed to be erected
Jointly by the women's clubs of the
city at the city park at the corner of
Seventh street and Fifteenth avenue.
The plans. VIVA be completed within a
short time, aitd will then be submitted
to representatives Of the various clubs
for their acceptance. A joint commit
tee TO take the project actively in
charge. is being organized. each club
having one member on this commit
tee. Only one club has not yet APP
pointed committeeman.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
ENGINEER GUILTY OF MURDER

Salisbury. N. c., May IA Tank
ersley, the engineer on the Southern
railway New York and New Orleans
limited which ON November "a last
collided with the rear end of special
train, killed two passengers, was gull
ty of man slaughter, a jury in the su-
perior court today found. The jury
recommended mercy.
Clyde Wilson, flagman on the
special was acquitted. ,+y@-a.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
LITTLE SENTIMENT
FOR PEACE FOUND

New York, May 12.-Samuel S. Nc
Clure, the well-known publisher, arriv-
ing from Copenhagen last night on the
steamer Oscar II, said he found a SEN
timent for peace only in Germany and
Austria. He visited all of the belli-
grents. The Germans and Austrians
desire peace for commercial reasons
only. They do not fear defeat. The
English, French, Russians, Belgians,
Italians, Hungariahs, Bulgarians, Ger
mans, Austrians and Turks are all con-
fident of victory and determined to
fight it out.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
CITIZEN SOLDIERS WAR
ON CHlCkAMAUGA FIELD

Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, May 12.-The
elementary principles of attack and
defense on an unknown foe we're work
ed out in the combat exercises on the
historic field Of battle of Chickamauga
today by the citizens soldiers in train
ing at the southern military camp
This afternoon the soldiers were car
ried through the elective work, con-
sisting of field artillery, engineering,
signalling, military hygiene and map
reading.
private letter from Secretary of
War Baker, received at the camp to-
day. adds the secretary's Endorsement.
Seventy-five men, employees OF the
Tennessee Coal and Iron company, OF
the Birmingham district, arrived today
and we're assigned to different COM
panies in training The coming of this
contingent was brought about by Ser
geant Robert Bacon, former secretary
of state and ambassador to France,
who became impressed with the small
attendance on the opening day of the
camp, the roll call showing ESQ, where,
as 900 had signed up. Mr.. Bacon few
days later telegraphed Judge Gary, OF
the United States Steel corporation, tc
Justify the expense for the camp and
/ suggesting, that he send delegation
from the Birmingham district and add
/ ing that if the company could not al
ford the expense that he would pay
/ II himself .,..- ..- ~ --'-i
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
VICTIMS IMPROVING

Miss Ella Smith, who sustained a
fractured right thigh and other inju-
ries in the automibile wreck of a VII
emma party of young people several
ago, is still under treatment at the To-
cal sanitorium. She is improving nice
ly, but the nature of her injuries peees-
states slow recovery.
Miss Genie Morgan, who was crush
ed by the weight of the car, is consid-
cred the more seriously hurt, though
her recovery will perhaps be more
rapid than that of Miss Smith Miss
Morgan remained under treatment at
the local hospital for several days and
was then removed to her home at VII
emma. At first it was thought that on
'ly one of her jaw bones was fractured,
but after a thorough examination it
was disclosed that the other was badly
fractured. Dr. Johnson, dental sur
geon of Macon, was called in for con-
sultation, and concluded that an OPP
Grafton of a delicate nature was nee
essary. The operation was performed
with the assistance of Vienna physi-
clans, and ner present condition is
very encouraging.
Vernon Kirkland and Geo. Redfern,
the two young men in the accident
have practically recovered from their
slight injuries.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
DAY
TO Be OBSERVED
THE WHITE FLOWER TO BE WORN
AS A TRIBUTE TO BEST WOMAN
IN WORLD.

1
This is Mothers Day, and the white
flower emblematic Of mothers love
and purity, is being worn today by
hundreds of Cordele men, women and
children, and services that will fitting
Iy pay her tribute and commemorate
her virtues viii be observed either in
the morning sermon, Sunday school
or other exercises in all of the church
es of the city.
An occasion that attaches unusual
interest to the day will be the joint
Mothers Day exercises, held under the
auspices of the Fort Early chapter D.
A. R., the First Baptist church at
o'clock Sunday afternoon. The SEN
timent Of the occasion expressed in
all Of the exercises OF the day. and es-
pecially in the exercises to be held
under the auspices or the D. A. R., is
The conservation of the home through
mother and through the home the con-
servation Of nations preparedness"
A resolution adopted by the D. A. R.
conference, held at Columbus during
last February, was to the effect that
each chapter of this organization OBJ
serve Mothers Day in appropriate ex-
ercises.
An, especially appropriate and ex-
cellent program has been arranged for
these exercises. Several quartettes,
solos, and violin music, together with
a number of talks by the ministers and
presidents of the women's clubs of the
city, will be included. The young Ia
dies Of the d. A. r. will form a COM
mittee to pin white flowers on men
attending the exercises. The white
carnation is the official flower for
Mothers Day, though all kinds Of
white flowers are won.
Mrs. q. NJ. Espy, regent Of the D.
A. r.. chapter, who is largely RESPONSE
Bile for the program to be presented,
in a talk will explain that 1t was new
er intended that any flower other than
the white should be worn on Mothers
Day, and this because white is emble-
matte of purity. Florists, states Mrs.
Espy, have ATTEMPTED to commercialize
the day and destroy its sentiment, by
substituting red flower because of
their inability to furnish the white
flower that the occasion has demand
ed,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
TOWNS BURNED IN
RAIDS clsa BORDER

Tuscon, Ariz.. May 12. Mexican
bandits are reported to have raided
and burned the town Of Lociaiei. on
the American side 80 miles east Of
Nogales today.
Mexican bandits are reported to
have raided Polaris. a mining camp,
seven miles below Lochiel, on the
border yesterday, driving out the
Americans who escaped to Nogales
in automobiles. Colonel Sage, com.
mandant at Nogales, sent company
Of infantry and twenty cavalrymen to
guard Lochiel. washington camp an
other towns on the American side.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
WAGE INCREASE GRANTED.

Philadelphia, May 11.-Announce-
ment of a 10 per cent increase in wa
ges for it's factory employees, effective
May 8. was announced today by the
Victor Talking Machine company. Sew
eral thousand workers are affected.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
AVIATOR WILL FLY FROM
AUGUSTA TO NEW YORK

Augusta, Ga, May 13.-H. H. Rine-
hart, the aviator, expects to fly from
Augusta to New York tomorrow. He
went to Harlem, Ca, and returned on
trial trip this morning, making the
distance of fifty miles in fifty-three
minutes. If the weather conditions
are good he will leave at four a. M,
and expects to arrive on Governors
Island at five p. m. He will follow the
Southern Railway to Columbia, then
to Raleigh to Richmond to Washing
ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
AUTOMOBILE HIT
BY PASSENGER TRAIN

A touring car, driven by Max Bonis-
Ike, 16lyear-old son of r. Boniske, col
lided with a Georgia Southwestern &
Gulf passenger train on the Fifth
street crossing of the Seaboard railway
Friday morning about 1880. The young
man had driven the machine to the
ice plant and was returning with
some ice when the accident occurred.
The front wheels Of the machine were
crushed, but It was not otherwise bad
II damaged. Young Boniske escaped
without injury, except for slight
shaking up.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14
NEW GROCERY STORE
ON SMOKEY ROW.

william Singer is busy putting in a
new stock of groceries at the corner
of Eighth street and Thirteenth ave-
nue.. He will have a fine new stock
and will expect to do large business.
The store is in the building belonging
to Mrs. Heirs.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-14

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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-03-17
PEpeRT OF THE CONDITION

or TIE Wsslmiasfer Deposit d Trust Com
PAM at Westminster, In the State If
Maryland. at The close Of business
March I'll, 1916.
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UNION MILLS.

Nias Mary Reinecke, of Westmin=
ster. spent last Saturday and Sunday
with Miss Mary Bankert
Miss Bernetta Myers, of Pleasant
Valley, visited Miss Margaret Ecker
the latter part of last week.
Mrs. Sarah Lowe. who was quite III
with pneumonia, is conyaleseing.
Masters Irwin Flickinger and Ed
mund Nusbaum, who have been sick.
are improving.
Mrs Charles Myers and children.
Of Baltimore, are spending this week
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Il.
N. Koontz.
The oyster supper which WAS held
By the ladies' of the Methodist Epls-
eopal church last week was quite a
SUCCESS A nice sum was realized
and there are yet some fancy articles
to be disposed of.
Miss Catherine. little daughter Of
DR.. and Mrs. q. L. Wetzel celebrated
her sixth birthday on March L. b.
entertaining ak little girl friends. the
Misses Anna Myers, Dorothy Hook.
Marie Bollinger. Edith Lippy. Carolyn
and Roberta Brown and IaRue Wet
eel An elegant luncheon was served
consisting of sandwiches. cake. cream
and fruit. Games and other amuse-
ments kept the little folks busy. and
the time 10 wish their little hostess
.aany more happy birthdays and say
good bye. came too soon.