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Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
Teachers EnploYed

While all the positions have not yet been filled in the DouQlas school, the board has employed the following for the coming year, all those mentioned having been on the staff during the year now drawing to a close:
 Principal aud teacher of English Miss Floy Tracy.
 High school teacher of mathematics and history-Miss Isabel Wilson.
 Teacher of fifth and sixth grades Miss Mayselle Moss.
 Teacher of second and third grades Miss Elizabeth Boyle.
 The vacancy in the 6rst grade will be filled by Miss Martha Olsen. Other vacancies will be filled shortly.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
LOCAL MATTERS
 EDUCATIONAL
Number of Innovation Are to Be Introduced in Doug
 las Public School.

The establishment of a junior high school to include the seventh and eight grades of the grammar school is the latest innovation suggested in the school plans by the Douglas school board for next year. The new depart ment will be under the direct supervi- sion of the four high school teachers but will carry the same course of stud ies the seventh and eight grades are taking now under one grade school teacher. By distribution of the work amoug the high school teachers, it is believed that the boys and Rirls will get more specialized training and will be better fitted to enter the high school training as represented by the four years course already established. By this change there will now be six years of work in the grade school aud the same number in the high school. Grad uating exercises from the eighth grade will toe abolished after this year and only the high school graduatiOns ob- served.
 The Douglas Island WOman's club has offered to put in domestic science course which will be open to girls from the sixth grade through high school. The manual training department will be under the supervision of man who will be one of the four high school teachers elected for the new term. Music aud drawing will be taught by teacher for each department through out the school The number of teach. CTS for the coming year will remain the same.
 The school board has also voted set of supplementary readers for use of the schools.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
Trails Are Bare

Word has reached here to the effect that the snow is all gone onIthe Valdez Fairbanks trail and that travel between those points is now very difficult. The overland Whitehorse-Dawson trail was bare a week ago and runners have been replaced with wheels by the White Pass Stage company. In the latter district there was more snow the past winter than ever before known. Freighting on Lake Lebarge ceased ten days ago owing to the ice becoming un- safe.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
Back From Convention

The Juneau delegates to the late Re- publican convention at Seward have returned and brought most of the con vention home with them, among the captives being George Seho6eld of Nome, nominee for attorney-generas and Judge c. D. MuraDe, also of Nome, who was made national committeeman. Both gentlemen are on the way to the outside.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26

larity of their business. If you fellows were permitted to make your own laws' just one year would Ax you plenty"
 Martin Olsen, in behalf of the saloon men, advocated that the saloons should be kept open all night as a matter Of fire protection and robbery prevention.
 Dan Harding wanted to know it Che council would refund portion of the license money if the midnight closing ordinance was passed. He said the money was paid for tbe privilege of op erating all the time, Sundays excepted, and not for three-fourths of the time. He insisted that closing at midnight would give the town a dead appear ance and make it bad for arrivals on night steamers, as none of the hotels could afford to keep a night man just to receive the few travellers who come.
 Barney Conrad, of tho Hunter hotel, deplored the proposed action of the council as unfair. He stated that be had always conducted his place accord iug to law; that no saloon man has any use for a drunk man, and that the sa- loon men work hand in hand with the police for the preservation of law and order,
 Mir. Soenens of the Butte Bar, who was not averse to closing at night, pre- ferred the closing hour to be | instead of 12 o'clock. Other saloon men pres ept voiced the sentiments of the pre- vious speakers.
 Later the ordinance was placed on it's third reading when an amendment changing the closing hour from l2 to l was lost by a vote of four to two. The ordinance was then passed as originally introduced by Councilman Stubbins.
 Retiring fire chief, J. R. Langseth, re- ported that during the past year there were but five Are alarms and three fires. The total loss by fire during the year was less than s4OO or the three fires, two were from the careless use or stovepipes.
 The fire department reported having selected J. l.. Mcclure to be chief for the ensuing year, which selection was confirmed by the council.
 The wharf committee reported that new piles will be driven at the wharf within the next few days.
 The finance committee reported s9,494 80 on hands.
 The street committee reported hav- iog started work. Plans for the pro posed new Are building, also for the bridge on Third street were submitted.
 Instructions were issued to call for bids tor the fire building. It was de cided to have all sidewalks uniform in future.
 The old town piano was sold to Frank Oliver for s25.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
DIAMOND DRILLS
 TO START SOON
Three Separate Quartz Prop critics to Be Prospected in
 This Vicinity.

M. J. O'Connor. one of the principal owners of the Jersey City group of quartz claims located back of Tread we'll, is authority for the information that R. A. Kinzie, consulting engineer for that and other properties, will be here in a few days and that already a contract has been let to the Lynch brothers, diamond drill experts, for prospecting, not only the Jersey group, but the claims owned by the Tyee Min ing Company and those of the Holman Company.
 Pat Lynch was on the Island yester- day and has all arrangements made for going to work with the drills May 1st. As all the above mentioned properties are iu this immediate vicinity and as there is every reason to believe that more tban diamond drills will be oper- ating on them in the very near future, the prospect for increased business in Douglas and Treadwell is very fatter ing.
 As the prospecting already done on these properties has been sufficient to indicate that they all possess practic- ally unlimited ore bodies, three new mining plants are among the probabili- ties for Douglas Island before another year has passed.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
Trouble at Anchorage

There are labor troubles at Anchor age where the wages offered on the gov ernmeut railroad are unsatisfactory There is a general belief that the wages should be S5 per day and found and, considering the mosquitoes and other drawbacks, the demand is not uureas- enable.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
Steamboat Men Returning

A number of the officers and crews of Yukon river steamers have passed through to the north lately to resume operations for the season.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26
Ladies' League Meeting

The Ladies' League of the Congre qatioual church hold their regular business meeting Thursday afternoon at the church.
Douglas Island news., 1916-04-26

The Ladies Pioneer Society of Doug las met this afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. Andersen.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
DEATH CLAIM MRS. NJ. Y. PEAvY.

After & linger illness from Dellagra.
Mrs N. Y. Peavy, died at her home
in west Cordele last Friday afternoon
Mrs. Peavy was one Of the oldest
residents of the city and had large
number of friends She is survived by
husband and several children,
among whom is Mrs. J. C. Burnam, of
this city
Interment was at Sunnyside GENE
terry Saturday afternoon.
A. e. STARR MADE w. Q. w. CLERK.
AT the regular meeting Monday
night OF the local camp Modern Wood
men, A. r. Starr was elected as clerk
to succeed T. M, Lawrence. Mr..
Starr is well capacitated for the Of
fee and the camp membership feel
that ne will so conduct its affairs as
clerk that great benef will come to
the organization.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
WEEVlL EXPERTS
WILL WORK HERE

Interest among the farmers and bus
mess men Of C0rdele and Crisp coun-
ty is growing in the boil weeyil meet
ing to be held under the auspices OF
the state department of entomology
at the cour, house Tuesday October
"a. 1t will be an all-day meeting, be-
ginning at 10 o'clock, and the boil
weeyil and how to grow cotton under
boil weevil conditions will be thor
oughly discussed by experts. e. Lee
Worsham, state entomologist, will be
the principal speaker.
Some of the farmers will bring spe-
cimens OF the boil weevil from their
crons, ard the farmers win not only
discuss tho insect from the platform
but viii 30 into the fields with the
farmers and explain the methods Of
curbing against its rayaEes.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
MISS PATE WILL
PRESENT "BAMBI''
EXPRESSION TEACHER IN ARAB
SCHOOL WILL BE HEARD FRI
DAY EVENING IN CHARMING
RENDITION.


Miss Kathleen Pate, music and ex-
preston teacher at Arab, will give
"Bambi" at Arab School Auditorium
next Friday evening October 9th. at
eight o'clock. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
'Bambi' is charming love story
by Marjorie Benton Cook, and has
been dramatized by Miss Pate.
Act l. Bambi wins husband
Their first trip to New York together
Act 2. At home again. Bambi
writes book. keeping the authorship
even from Jarvis, her husband
Act g. Jarvis trials and tribula-
tons as q play writer His dramatic
ing Bambi's book, not knowing the
author
4. Jarvis falls in love with the author,
not knowing she is his wife. The pre-
sentaton of the play. Bambi reveals
her secret.
There will be music between acts
by Miss Louise Jones. A small adj
mission of ten and fifteen cents will
be charged all of which will be for
the benefit Of the school.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
CITY POLITICS
SOON STIRRING
CITY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MEETS TOMORROW AFTER
'ffNOoN TO FIX DATE FOR CITY
PRIMARY.


The city executive committee will
hold meeting tomorrow afternoon
and at that time will fix date for
the municipal primary at which a may
I or and three members of the city coun
Gil will be named Much interest is
beginning to manifest itself in the
coming primary.
J. V. Dunlap is chairman of the
committee. T. M. Cocker, Rome Shep-
pard G. B. Wilkes and F. L. Barthol-
omew are the other members.
The candidates will oegin "bobbing"
up after the committee fixes the date
for the primary There will be sew
eral for council. AS 10 the mayors
office, there is nothing dom" at the
present.
Mayor Jones stated Monday that
while he had been requested by num-
Der Of his friends to be a candidate
to succeed himself as mayor of the
city, he had made no definite am
nouncement, for the reason that he
|>did not know when the city executive
committee would meet for the purpose
of naming a date for the city primary
election.
II do not believe in a long drawn
out campaign. It is unnecessary and
burdens the people with the pros and
cons, when every candidate and his
qualifications are well known from the
start" said Mayor Jones'
Heretofore we have held our city
primary election during the first of
November, aSnthe general election is
held, as the charter provides, in De-
cember and the new:y elected mayor
and adldermen go into office after the
second Wednesday in December. /
judge that the committee will meet
and name date for the primary cleo
ton some time shortly, then each can
didate can put forward through the
papers his announcement and name
such issues as he would like for the
people to weigh him upon"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04

While the acreage planted this year
was 12.1 per cent larger than last year
the crop promises to be about the
same as last years in size. The final
output last year was 11,190, 500 bales;
two years ago it was 1G,134,000 bales,
three years ago it was 14,156, 1856 bales
and four years ago 13,703,4 1922 bales.
Farmers are receiving for their cot
ton at this time higher prices that have
been paid since 1872 In that year the
average paid for cotton was 16.5 cents
In 1871 prices paid ayerged 17.9 cents,
and in 1869, 1865 cents. The democrat
ization of the cotton market soon af-
ter the outbreak Of the European war
caused 2 violent break in prices. On
August /. 1914. farmers were being
paid 1874 cents pound for their cotton
and by November 1 the prices had fall
en- to GO cents 4 pound.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
To ORGANIZE
MAKE |. CLUB
MEETING CALLED AT WHICH, BUS
MESS MEN WILL MAKE EF
FORTS TO ORGANIZE HOME
MARKET CLUB.

Mayor J. Gordon Jones has arranged
for meeting of business men to he
held IN the parlor> :, the Suwanee
Hotel ca Thursday afternoon, Octo-
Der q at four o'clock for the purpose
Of discussing plans for organizing a
home marke; club whose duties viii
be The fnding OF purchasers for the
local cutrut Of food products and other
agricultural products.
Il is now considered of vast impor-
lance that local business men and
farmers join hands iii locating buyers
for what Crisp county will have to
cffer outside and local organiza-
ton fer this purpose will be perfected.
The matter has already been dis
cussed and the necessity of such an
organization has been considered ur-
gent.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
RICE GROWING
GAINS Roadway
CRISP COUNTY FARMER HAS FINE
CROPS WITH RECORD YIELD
A RICE MILL NEEDED.

A. f. Reid, live farmer residing
Two miles out Of town on the Seville
road, comes in with one and one-half
acres in rice this season. Farm Dem
onstrator J. A. Johnson is something
over five feet tall and this rice field
tipped his hat at the brim all over.
The rice stalks will average five feet,
and the head is unusually heavy. The
tyield will be fine.
The development of rice culture
will prove 10 small thing, so says this
farmer, if the planters win get into
their low lands and try it.
The homegrown rice is said to be
much better article than that bought
from imported stock Those who
grow rice want arrangements made
for cleaning it at home A mill is con
sidered urgent
The l. NJ. Powell Milling company
promised rice mill last year if the
farmers would plant enough to assure
business and the farmers of the coun-
ty are now urged to try planting
enough for their home use.
MIR. Reid has an abundant supply
FOR his home consumption and will
have Il considerable amount to sell. It
will be fine quality and ought to be
worth a good price.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
VANCE MANAGER
SUWANEE Hotel
WHO HAS WORKED IN POSITION
FIVE YEARS.

w. E. Vance takes charge of the
Suwanee Hotel tomorrow morning.
Business plans have been laid for i'm
proving the service and making the
5uwanee one Of the best hotels in all
south Georgia. The new man will
nave general supervision of all the
business affairs of the hotel and will
enter upon his new duties with de-
termination to put the Suwanee to
The front
J. &. zachery has been at the Su-
vance period Of about five years
and during his management has made
many friends. He goes out, severing
his connection today, but will remain
in CordeIe, at least for the present
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
PR0GRESSiyES
MEET IN C,0RDELE
HARRY EDWARDS STATE CHAIR
MAN ATTENDED THIRD DIS
TRICT CONFAB AT JUDGE
POATPIGHTS OFFICE.

On Monday was a meeting OF the
.Progressives of Tire Third Congress
sional district held at the Office of
p. G. Roatright over the American
National Bank. Among those pres
emf was barry Stuwell Edwards Of
Macon. state chairmcn Of the Progress
siye party and also chairman Of the
campaign committee Of that party.
Every county in the district was
represented, either in person or by
letter The purpose of the meeting
was TO take stems to organize the
Tb:rd district with a view Of afford
-ng every person opposed TO The pres
ont administration an opportunity
to vote according 10 his convictions.
Mr.. Edwards who had recently re
turned from, New York where he
had been in conference with the ma
ional leaders Of the EepubHcan'par-
ty, reported that he found on every
hand the most unhounded confidence
in the election Of Hughes and Fair
banks ard also that he found that
the same views were shared by the
independent news S@tnerers Of the
metropolis
1t was The sense of the meeting
that there should be two parties in
every county in the state so that
citizens could vote on measures rath-
CT than men II IVES the sense Of
he meeting, that with the few ex-
ceptions in which candidates had al
ready been put in the held by the
rrogressives, that the Democratic
candidates would be placed on all
their tickets.
The Georgia Progressiyes endors-
the Republican national ticket,
with Hughes and Fairbanks as it's
leaders Immediately after the Chica-
go convention II is declared to be
The purpose OF the Progressive party
in Georgia TO furnish a white-man's
ticket, controlled entirely by white
men.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
WILD AUTO RIDE
AIRED IN COURT.
THREE YOUNG MEN BOUND OVER
TO HIGHER COURT-ONE RE-
LEASED. FOUR CHARGES TO
EACH MAN

w H. Tuggle j. L. 0dom, James T.
Hall and Dewey Veal, four young white
men arrested and lodged in the county
ia;l Friday night after an automobile
Of which they were occupents had
crashed into a wagon on the public
highway near Raines, severely injur-
ing Mrs Pete Bradley and causing
gainfUl injuries TO G. V. Williams and
wife and Mr. Kimbrough, were arraign
ed for preliminary hearing Monday
morning before Judge J. p. Hughes in
Justice court.
Four charges were lodged against
each of the young men, assault and
battery, drunkenness, discharging fire
arms on the public highway and carry
ing concealed weapons The warrants
we're sworn out on the affidavit of DR..
=. E. Williams, a nephew Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams, who attended the
wounded persons.
Tuggle, who was driving the car,
On Oakland, was bound over to the su-
rerior court under q bond of $500 for
assault and battery and an additional
bond OF 500 for violating the automo-
bile law. The charges Of assault and
battery did not develop at the hearing
against the other three men. Veal was
dismissed Of all charges. evidence be-
ing introduced that he was not drunk
and probobly not guilty Of any of the
other charges preferred Hall was
bound over under bond of 5000 equally
divided on charges. of drunkenness and
,lischarging firearms on the public
highway.
1t was charged at the hearing that
he young men rendered no assistance
% the wounded persons, that they
were driving without lights and that
speed limit Of thirty miles per hour
permissible under the state law was
being exceeded at the time of the &C
cident. 1t was further brought out
that they did not give their names to
the occupants of the wagon, as is re
1uired by law in such cases.
Latest reports from Mrs Bradley
are that her condition is serious. Her
leg was broken in two places and she
was internally injured. Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams and Mr. Kimbrough, while
painfully injured, are said to be i'm
proving steadily
All of the young men nave made bond
and have been released from the coun-
ty jail.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
DAY OF ATONEMENT
TO Be OBSERVED
JEWISH POPULATION OF COR
DELE WILL LEAVE OFF BUS
MESS ON SATURDAY-OPEN
STORES AT 8 c'CLOcK.

The Jewish population of Cordele
Will on Saturday observe Yom Kip
ur or "The Day OF htonement" The
observance Of the occasion will begin
It sunset Friday afternoon and con-
,inue until sunset Saturday. Those
lmong The business men who will
bserve the day viii close their
places of business at 6 O'Clock Fri
day afternoon and open again Satur-
day afternoon at O'Clock
Ycm Kirpu~ is the tenth day of the
month of lis the thought under
lying the Observance is expressed in
he scriptual words, con this day he
will atone for you, to purify you from
your sins"
The day is the MS, solemn of all
days in The Jewish calendar 1t is
raased in fasting and prayer. The
whole day is spent in the synagogue.
In the evening there is the service
which commences with he chanting of
he well-known Kol Nidre prayer. The
day proper has four services. Of these
the Mussaf Or additional service con-,
tains a description of the atonement
rites rs Dracticed in The ancient days
in the Temple Of Jerusalem; and the
Neilah service is understood TO be
held at the time when decision is
finally made as to mans fate, and thus
The Nc:lah prayers instead of having
the usual prose, "Inscribe us in the
book of life" uses the expression
Seal us in the book Of life"
According TO Jewish tradition ex-
pressed in an ancient law-book, the
Day of Atonement. when spent in
praying and repenting, will bring par
don for sins between man and God;
but as for the sins committed by man
against his fellow man the Day can
not bring pardon until he has appeased
his fellow man. This idea is the basis
Of the effort always made before the
Day OF Atonemeut 10 bring. peace be-
tween such friends who have become
estranged and are on unfriendly terms
with one another, and in this way the
day will put the worshippers al peace
not only with his Maker, but also with
his fellownan.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
NEGRO HUNTER GETS
HUGE CATAMOUNT
DOGS AND GUN BOTH COME INTO
FIGHT BEFORE GAME WAS
BROUGHT DOWN.

Bully" Harris, a negro who is en-
ployed as driver of the delivery wag-
On for the city market killed huge
catamount just beyond the northern
city limits early Tuesday morning
Dogs belonging TO the negro got on the
trail of the animal and ran it for some
distance before it climbed tree.
When the negro fred three shots from
rifle into the body, the animal fell
from the tree and engaged in an &C
tive fight with the dogs before it was
GnalIy sUbdued and killed by them.
The cat weighed II pounds.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
KITTEN ROCKWELL TO Rest
At PLACE WHERE LIFE EBBED

Paris, Oct 3.-Ln accordance with a
wish he expressed to his comrades
the night before his death, the body
CT Kitten Rockwell, the American ayia
tor will rest eventually in tbe exact
spot in Alsace in which he landed af-
ter his fatal fight with a German ali
craft week ago. He is buried at
present in q cemetery near the head
quarters Of the American Escadrille
in the Eosages sector aad probably
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
GREEK American
PUTS ON Shine
NEW IMPROVE ENT COMPLETED
AND CORDELE NOW HAS TWO
FINE RESTAURANTS

improvements recently completed
on The Greeh-American restaurant give
IL al uD-to-date neat, and bright ap-
pearance and outatrips most Of the
restaurants Of the larger cities, The
proprietors Alex Chcnen and Angel
Charles have spent several thousand
dollars in installing marble wamscoat-
ing and huge wall mirrors. A plate
glass front has also been installed by
c. c. Williams, owners of he build
ings. improvements have also been
made in the service. The Greek
American is now fine place.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-04
fire DESTROYED
Rochelle Still
s. R. FENN LOST TURPENTlNE
PLANT SUNDAY NiGHT--MAY
BE WORK OF lNCENDIARY.

a turpentine distIlery located at
Rochelle and belonging to S. R. Fem,
a prominent merchant and farmer of
that place, was destroyed by fire Sun
day night about u o'clock. 1t is sus-
pected that the fire was of incendiary
origin as there had been no fire about
the distillery for a week
Twenty barrels Of spirits, twenty
barrels of gum and about twenty-five
barrels Of rosin were destroyed and
the distillery was a complete loss. The
entire damage is estimated at $1,000.