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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
CR|SP'S QUOTA
WILL Be READY
LOCAL BOARD HAS ALMOST FIN
IsHE0 WoRk-DIvIsioN BOARD
DELAYS.

The local exemption board in
Crisp has covered its work so well
and so rapidly that when the call for
the men certified for service is made
on September 5th, everything here
will be ready and waiting. The war
department has asked for only five
per cent of the men and prefers to
lave those who have military exper-
fence on the draft. These will be sent
in five daily attachments and it is
up to Governor Dorsey to devise a
way Of handling the whites and the
ct lored in satisfactory manner.
On September 18th another forty
per cent of the drafted men will be
called for and on October Bird anoth-
e. fcrty per cent will be taken. The
room can be made at the canton
ments
The division board in Savannah
LOST its secretary yesterday on &C
count Of his being within tho age
limit. Not much is being heard here
about the work it is accomplishing
and the local board members fear
that its work will not be finished in
time to permit the departure of the
drafted men on time, twelve TO fif-
teen men, on their own volition, have
arpealed from the findings of the
local board and are making efforts to
get out of the draft. These are about
half white and half colored Nothing
now remains to be done@in Crisp but
to permit the division board to finish
its work. The required number of
men will be ready.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
BETTER FILMS COMMITTEE
RESUMES SHOWS SEPT. 9TH.

Mrs. E. M. Espy, State Chairman
D. A. R., Better Films Committee, an
nounces that, beginning Friday, Sep
telnbeI 18th, special programs for
children and family groups will be
resumed at the Palace Manager
Cain, with the Better Films Commit
tee will select and put on the best
pictures to- be secured for these days.
Arrangement has been made to have
the story told in the school and also
at the Library as formerly. The open
ing picture for Friday, September Z,
will be "The Littliest Rebel" Other
announcements later.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
BETTER PUT UP YOUR
BOX FOR CITY MAIL.

Postmaster A. l.. Macarthur is call
ing the attention of the public again
to requirements regarding the use OF
boxes for the mail. The notice fol-
lows:
"By direction of the Post Office De
partment, the attention Of patrons of
this office is invited to the advan-
tages of providing facilities for the
receipt of their mail by erecting con-
veniently accessible boxes or cutting
suitable slots in their doors. Such &C
ton would enable the postmaster to
give a prompter and better delivery
service with the means at his dis
posal, since the carriers can cover
much more territory in less time if
not compelled TO wait for an answer
to their ring. Private receptacles for
mail are also great convenience to-
the householder, obviating the neces+
sity of responding to the carriers call
at inconvenient moments and permit
ting the safe delivery Of mail in the
absence of members Of the house
hold. They also prevent the occas-
ional necessity of a carriers pro-
ceeding on his route without deliver
ing mail because of failure to an
answer his ring within reasonable
time, and enable him to make deliv-
cries to patrons living on or near the
end of the route at an earlier hour
at has been shown by actual ex7
perience that the benefits derived by
patrons of city delivery from the use
of such receptacles far outweigh the
small expense involved. AS this Of
flee is interested in furnishing the
best possible service at the least ,ex-
pense your compliance with the fore
going suggestions will be much APP
preciated.
Respectfully,
"a. L. MACARTHUR, Postmaster"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
CAR TURNS TURTLE
With GIRL driver
MISS GRACE WILLIAMS CAUGHT
UNDER MACHINE AND ONLY
SLIGHTLY HURT.

A Ford car belonging to DR.. S. F..
Williams, turned turtle on Fourteenth
Avenue this morning about eight
thirty O'Clock in front Of the home of
p. C. Clegg. The car was driven by
his daughter, M SIS Grace She was
penned up under the car and could
rot not get cut until it was raised.
Tha windshield and top were the
only parts of the Ger demolished. 1t
did not seriously hurt Miss Williams,
only bruising her hands and arms.
Mss Williams w9s the only Oc-
cupant OF the car and was passing
another machine thai was standing
in the road and struck sand bed.
She was unable to handle the car in
the sand, and it turned over.
Save the little excitement, she was
soon herself again and was carried
home in neighbors automobile.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
PREPARING BIG PEANUT
CROP FOR HUNGRY MARKET.

That big peanut output on the farm
of John Lee Wheeler is now getting
it's preparation for market. A pack
ing machine and a new bailing press
are at work already and within a few
days the peanuts will be in their uni
form four bushel sacks and the hay
will go into the regulation bale. They
all the peanut products will be ready
for market.
"The machinery that is being put
to work in this new industry is rap
idly taking the place of the absent
labor that used to make things hum"
said a business man today. "The
labor problem that is always a ques-
ton, cannot be so much in the way
SO long as the leading farmers take
this method of meeting the shortage.
John Lee Wheeler's farm is being
made an example of what every wide
awake progressive farmer can do"
The Palmer-Jones Company claim
the distinction Of having placed the
new machinery that is to do the work
in the peanut fields on this big farm
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
CORDELE ASKS FOR
AVIATION CAMP
SEVEN CITIES IN SOUTH GEoR-
GIA ARE TRYING FOR SECTION
OF SIGNAL CORPS.

Seven Georgia cities are competing
fer the big camp for the Aviation
Section of the Signal Corps, which
will soon accommodate from 5000 to
5000 men and which will be def
nitely located within short time.
The cities that already have bid
for the camp are Albany, Valdosta,
Rome, Griffin, Waycross, Cordele,
and Thomasville
Captain c; e. Edgar, of the con-
struction division OF the Signal
Corps, has suggested that, because
of The desire to locate the camp with
the least possible delay, cities that
can offer fair buildings, thereby saw
ing the loss of time in the construc-
ton of new camp, have the best
opportunity.
The city securing the camp must
offer complete messing and housing
facilities for the 5000 to 5000 men,
and a big amount of store room also
must be aavllable.
Mayor Jones had message yester
day regarding the camp and mined
lately called, meeting of citizens to
discuss the matter. A message was
sent, but plans were made for fur
Their conference at meeting in the
council chamber at ten. O'Clock to-
morrow morning.
At that time it will be decided just
what course. to pursue in the effort
to put Cordele in line for aviation
section of the. signal Corps Those
present at the meeting discussed
available grounds and buildings and
the possibility of constructing quar-
ters.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
CANNING WORK
GROWING LARGER
OVER FIVE CARS OF FRUIT JARS
AND ONE CAR CANS USED
HERE.

Only half the truth about the
amount of fruit jars sold in Cordele
this season has been told. One
house, the Heard Grocery Company
was reported as having sold three
solid cars of fruit jars alone. Anoth-
er house, the Peoples Grocery Com
pany, has sold two cars and frac-
tional shipment gotten in at the first
of the season. Other houses have sold
abundant orders and the territory
out of Cordele has made heavier de-
mands for cans and jars than ever
before.
One business man makes the asser-
ton that in Cordele trade territory
the people have used more cans and
jars than in all other seasons COM
bined. An enormous quantity of
food stuffs has been put up.
It is to be remembered also that
the use of cans is not far behind the
Jars. A car load came to the can
ming clubs and their friends and
thousands were sold through other
channels. Cordele has sold over
fifty thousand two and three pound
cans this season. But what of that,
one farmer in lower Crisp has five
thousand cans filled and stored away
for hard times and good prices.
"The people of this community and
this section have never before res
pended SO generally and so effective
ly to the call of the country for more
food products" said a citizen.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
UNCLE SAM WANTS is SQUARE
MILES FOR MACHINE GUNS

Uncle Sam certainly doesn't know
much about the value of the lands
of free born Americans down in
Crisp County. He has inquiries out
for fifteen square miles of territory
in these parts suitable for machine
gun range. He might chuckle, in
spite of the serious graphing with
his German advertisary, if he knew
how many real potato patches he
would destroy, how many peanuts,
corn and bean fields might go by the
board, how many pretty country
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
WHEN YOU ADDRESS YOUR
SWEETHEART, BE ACCURATE

each person to whom you write. such
as PRIVATE, Corporal, Sergt., Lieut.,
etc, as this will help to locate the
party.
You should always write your re-
turn address in the upper left hand
corner as this will in event of neie
delivery, return the letter to you.
Soldiers should notify their friends
and relatives the name of .Canton,
ment, Nubmer of Regiment, and des-
ignation of Company.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
COOKS IN THE COTTON PATCH:
ALI'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD

woman is, just carry along your card
and leave it under the dor. They are
in the cotton patch making money
now.
This is the rush season, and if you
are a new one in these parts, don't
worry. Just put up your sleeves and
go to work. That will be the short
est way out of your troubles. You
are not likely to interest the cook
and the washerwoman just now with
special inducements 1t is cotton
picking time in Georgia.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
MET HODIST'S HAVE
HOME COMING DAY
WILL HAVE SPECIAL PROGRAM
NEXT SUNDAY IN coRDELE-
SPECIAL MUSIC.

Sunday, September nd, will be
observed as homecoming day at
the Methodist church of this city
An attractive service with special
music has been arranged, and all
heads of the membership are asked
to come accompanied by their famil-
les and sit in family groups.
This Sunday will mark the opening
of the fall season, many who have
been away for the sumemr months
have returned to the city and all are
urged to come and help make this
great day.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

If you want to give a little more
wear to one of your straw hats, get
enough of the heavy pleated maline
to ct around the crown. This is sold
by the yard in all different quantities,
some with only two or three thick
nesses OF layers, and some with half
dozen Of course, it doesn't stand
the weather very well, but it does
give a dainty finish that refreshes and
refurnishes a sun-worn hat and makes
il Wearagle for few weeks more.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

The cooks in the cotton patch; I
ALPS wrong with the world.
The housekeeper or anybody, for
that matter, would be willing to eX
cuse this travesty on the beauty of
one of Browning's prettiest little
poems, for it is the truth. This is
the season when the plum bushes
the pretty little hands go into the
dish water co-plunk.
Cooks, washerwomen and every
body on the "cullud" side of town
"aint home" If you are making a
call to Sc where your cook or washer
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

The Postoffice department has is
sued the following:
Postmasters should give as much
publicity as possible to the proper ad-
dressing of mail for soldiers.
Sample
Private John B. Smith,
Company 45th Init
Camp Wheeler, Ga.
Capt. John B. Brown,
Company c., 1876 INIT.
Camp Gordon. Ga.
Be sure to designate the rank of
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
KELLY RAISES SUNFLOWER
MEASURED IL INCHES ACROSS

A Russian sunfoWer measuring
twelve inches across was taken from
the specimen tract grown by ] r.
Kelly in front Of the warehouse and
Office of the Dixie Seed Farms last
week aud will he preserved for eH
hibit at the county fair here and at
the state fair in Macon.
This is one of the largest ever seen
in thise section and is one of many
ones grown around the walks at the
little seed farm operated on the city
vacant lot.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
DEATH TAKES 7-YEAR
OLD SON OF w. L. DIXON.

Dudley Hughes, the seven-year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. w. L. Dixon died
Monday afternoon after an illness
lasting through ten days. He had
been suffering long time, but only
during the past ten days was it ap-
parent that he was losing in his bat
tie against disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes lives at Rich
wood The funeral occurred Tuesday
and the remains we're inferred in
Mount Pleasant cemetery.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

All the fences have been pushed
down by the velvet beans. The soil
is literally charged with potatoes
enough to feed an American army
ever so long. There isn't room any
where else in the county for the big
fat hogs and cows, should Uncle Sam
get hold of fifteen square miles close
about here,-unless he could manage
like they do railroading in big cities,
build overhead.
But Uncle Sam says we can have
machine gun training camp here if
we will provide room for it. Anybody
ready to take hold of it and work it
out?,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
fire GAVE CLOSE
CALL TO FAMILY
E. coRDELE RESIDENCE BURNED
EARLY MONDAY. n. A. HAIR
DIN'S FAMILY LOST EFFECTS.

The City Fire department was
called Monday morning about one
o'clock to the home occupied by H.
A. Hardin in East Cordele The fire
completely destroyed the house and
only few things were saved. The
family got out of the house just be-
fore it fell in. The fire had gained
Roadway before the fire department
was called.
The house was formerly occupied
by j. C. Williamson, and was owned
by O. S. Bazemore
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
COST OF AlRPLANES TO THE
GOVERNMENT REDUCED.

Washington, Aug 2S-Manufacture
of aircraft in great numbers under
the aircraft production board, it was
learned today, has reduced the cost
of airplanes one-half, with the prob
ability that the cost price to the gov
eminent eventually will be about one
third of the normal cost OF the ma
chimes before the plans Of the board
are carried out.
II was stated that satisfactory prog
res was being made with actual con-
struction, insuring not only a con-
tinuous supply of the machines at
present being turned out but also
prompt delivery of the fighting type
early next year.
The statement was made in connec-
ton with published reports regard
ing airplane contracts made by the
army and navy between September
1916. and May, 1917 tending to show
that the government was compelled
by the manufacturers to pay exorbi-
tant prices.
Both Secretary Baker and Score
tary Daniels indicated that published
accounts of airplane contracts made
during the period mentioned would
be referred to the proper officials for
explanation No charges of wrong
doing by government officials are in
volved, Secretary Baker pointed out
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
Respectfully,
GA. L. MACARTHUR, Postmaster"

The friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Arnold of cambridge, win he inter
estcd in the news of the arrival Of
baby girl at their home Mrs. Arnold
is the Youngest daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Varnadoe, of this city.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

The Dixie Overland is the shortest
ocean to-ocaan highway. 1t is approx
imately 200 miles long.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

Vice-Admiral Takeshita, who' was
once naval attache al the japanese
embassy in Washington, is a member
of the japanese war commission
which is now in the United states.
He wag received IN Washington by
many Old friends.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

No cold that science has been able
to produce will kill the germ spore.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29

A new pocket to protect valuables
being carried about is designed to be
attached to the lining Of shoes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
POSTOFFICE AUTHORITIES
WATCH PEACE DERWSHES
Activities Of pndeSlrables Throw
Immense Amount Of Work
on Federal Officers.

The German propagandlsts and the
peace'at-any'prlce promoters are ere
atlng an Immense amount Of addition.
al labor for the Office Of William ii,
Lamar, solicitor for the post office de-
partmcnt. The activities Of these un.
desirable citizens in the pursuit Of
their fanatlcal fancles have made the
post office department an important
adjunct Of the national police system,
Immense quantities Of all classes Of
mail are now daily going through the
process of government scrutiny, with
view to experimenting all literature
contained in newspapers, magazines,
circular letters and even first class
mail that presents the slightest suspl.
cion Of sedition and dlsloyalty.
Not n great deal Of this matter IL
being uncarthed, but this fact does
not tend TO cause relentlng Of the
vigilance Of the federal officers, who
are constantly on the alert, and daily
increasing the scope Of their search,
Everything that Is discovered in the
mails to SAVIOR Of disloyalty and sedl-
ton is being promptly forwarded to
the secret service bureaus Of the gov
eminent for such acton as the instance
will merit.
The extent to which these disloyal
and treacherous fanatics operate, as
revealed by the disclosures Of the post
Office, is so small that no uneasiness
is felt that there ls any chance of 1t
becoming serious matter In any Sec
ton Of the country.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
CONvICTS MAKE GOOD
Win Snug List of Honors In the Brit
ish Army,

Convicts in the royal armies seem to
be making good. If the list Of honors
won by these men is criterion, they
are indeed second to none in valor and
fighting spirit. Almost 1000 have en-
listed since the beginning Of the war.
OF these, three received the Victoria
Cross, twenty-five received the d. 5.
o. and twenty have been mentioned in
dispatches. The former convicts have
consistently shone in the greatest bat
ties and it is reported that over half
of them have been killed, and a high
percentage of he remainder carry
wound stripes on their arms.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
COTTON PICKERS PROSPER
Make From SO to 81 a Day In Many
Sections of South.

Cotton pickers are making So and 81
q day in many sections Of the South.
A few years ago such amounts would
have represented pay for week.
Thousands Of cotton pickers are need
ed to gather the fleecy staple. Cot
ton is commanding more than 20 cents
a pound, compared with ten cents a
few years ago. Time was when 70
cents to 81 a hundred pounds was
considered high wages for picking, but
today pickers are paid from $1.5O to
$1.75 q hundred.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
POLAND SUFFERS FAMINE
German Denials Asserted to Be at
Variance With Truth.

In an effort to contradict state
ments made by the Warsaw town
council and a Danish relief expedition
the German government has issued an
official denial Of reports that famine
exists in Poland. A representative Of
the Warsaw council is in Copenhagen
trying to arrange for the sending Of
food supply by way Of Denmark, and
has painted an appalling picture Of
conditions in his native land.
Even the reichstag is in possession
of facts proving the falacy of the
German statement. Mortality in Po-
fish cities, due to lack of nutrition, Is
asserted to be frlghtful. Poland still
is compelled to feed the army Of occu-
patton.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
BIG COAL LAND DEAL
Tract of $4,000 Acres in Tennessee
CHANCES Hands,

Changes Hands.
Purchase of tract Of $4,000 acres
of coal land in Scott country, near
Oneida, by A. b. Day and John f..
Shea of Knoxville has been announced
at Knoxville Tenn. The tract is said
to be the largest single coal property
IN the South and more than 100000 Is
involved in the deal.
Five coal operations already have
been opened on the tract and addition
al development work is in progress.
The tract is near the Glen Mary oil
gushers and the new owners expect to
sink oil wells that will yield produc-
tive flow.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
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training camps the AVIATION schools the naval reserve have been constituted from college men almost
Wllfe The college
o q suffer
n supported
a he
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
GET MARRYING CRAZE
Teachers in Chicago Public Schools
Become Brides.

Matrimony in the ranks of Chicago
school teachers has almost doubled
since last year, when there wasn't
any war. The number of school
ma'am" brides this year is 106, as COM
pared with 81 last year.
Clerks who have talked to the teach
ers claim that the kaiser and his war
are to blame.
Many of the newly married teachers
have made application to be allowed
to continue teaching during the war.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
Typhoon and Flood Swept Japan.

Two hundred thousand people were
made homeless by the typhoon and
flood which swept Japan, causing 2,174
deaths and injury to no resider's In
towns along the coast.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-02
PRESIDENT THOMAS APPEALS TO MIDDLEBURY ALUMNI
College Threatened, Present Endowment Not
Inceased--An Opportunity at Hand

need your help for the old college, now more than eve
before. One hundred and two students members OF The
present Senior Junior and Sophomore classes, have dropped
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-07
Why Customers Switch
From Store To Store

The average storeman doesn't
have to be shown that the reason
why one store gets the customers
and the other doesn't lies in the
difference in service rendered, says
Women's Wear. Some buyers
who are so involved in fractional
differences in merchandise values
perhaps do not appreciate the
tremendous Importance of service
to the customer-but the following
table which is printed in the house
organ of a middle west store shows
that of 1913 reasons advanced by
customers for changing their buy
ing channels, only one reason has
to do with merchandise, while all
others deal with some branch of
store service or policy
The figures were obtained, says
the house organ, by an 'expert"
who wanted to know why people
stopped buying at one store and
went to another He wrote letters
to a number of people including.
both sexes, asking why they chang
ed stores and received 1893 replies.
These were tabulated and the
answers ranged in this order:
Indifference of salespeople. ;. Al
Attempts at substitution....... "a
Tricky methods. .1S
Slow deliveries. IT
Over insistence of salespeople. .l6
Insolence of saIespeople. ...... 16