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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
WAR DEPARTMENT IS
GENS0RINg THE NEWS
Dispatches From Europe Diverted to
Secretary of War For His APP
prevail.

Washington, d. c.. July 6-Since
yesterday dispatches to the Associated
Press telling OF the "Am6ricdn' troops
in France have been diverted by oHi-
cial order from their usual channel
Of delivery and have been delivered
FIRST to the Secretary Of War for his
approval
There IS no censorship of the press
il, the ,nlted States. Congress having
refused Il enact such q law, but news
papers and press associations have
voluntarily been observing the re
cue IS OF lie government
Heretofore news dispatches leaving
France have been censored by the
French officials or the American cen
scr with General Pershing's cXpedi-
ton or by arrangement with Lon
don, This, however is the first in
stance in which an executive depart
meut OF the United States govern
ment has seen fit 10 divert dispatches
ifCi' 'lelF aes''nat'oh ana "i'hhola
them for Official inspection.
In this case no notice OF the gov
efnments intention was given and
the first intlmation OF the practice
came when' last night, dispatches ad-
dressed to The Associated !reSs' New
York by its Paris correspondent, were
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Quits Fitzgerald Church.

Fitzgerald, July 7.--eRv l.. A. Coop
er pastor of the First Baptist church
has handed his resignation to the
board of deacons OF take effect Aug
1. Many friends are hoping that the
registration will not become effective
so early, if at all Rev, Cooper has
served the First Baptist church eff
GENTLY for three years, during which
time there have been several thou
sand dollars raised for church pur
poses, and scores have been added &c
the membership of the church He has
a multitude of friends in this city who
will regret to lose him.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Sneaker oppocsg conscrption.

Sylvester, Julq An anti-conscrip.
ten meeing called for Worth County
by a fe wdissatisfed citizens of Pine
bill district, in the eastern portion of
the county was held here today, a
small crowd attending from various
parts of the county. A few citizens of
Sylvester were present, largely thru
curiosity.
Messrs. Schwalb and Beck were the
principal speakers against the selec-
tive draft law. l.. ID. Passmore, Clifford
Grubbs and p. b. Ford spoke in favor
Of the law However, owing to the neg
ligibe rumber of Sylvester citizens
present resolution was easily pass
ed urging Congress to repeal the draft
law
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Camp Meeting ARRANGEMENTS.

Ashburn, July Arrangements are
being made for the camp meeting al
Ashburn to be held July 1929. The
mPnde ment is continually doing
somptl ing and things are taking
Shape nicely down at the camp ground
However, they have appointed Fri
day July the 9th for a general work
day when the bulk Of the work will
be completed. Friends from the coun
try as well as those in town, have
promised to go that day, some with
wagons and others tools and do a
good days work.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Ccntraband Liquor Seized.

Hawlinsville, July IA trunk con
tanning seventeen quarts of liquor was
found in the Ocilla Southern station
here by Deputy Sheriff j. L. Horne and
is being held at the county Jail await
ing orders from the judge as to its
disposition. The trunk was checked
TO this place from Fitzgerald, but so
far the owner has not called for it.
The officers are keeping a close look
out for the tigers" which makes it
hard matter for them to do any bus,
mess in this county.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Brief NeWsletS Of South Georgia Happenings
Back From "Norf.D Is Hanpx.

Edck FROM MOTT, is F12pPy.
Thcmasville, July T. There is no
happier man in Georgia today than
George McCloud, a negro, who has
Just returned from the "Norf," where
he went with several other from
Thcmasyille. George got homesick and
wrote to Thomasville man for help
to get back home, promised to do any
thing to repay him. Before the money
could reach him, however, he had
found a man from here who lent him
some money and with what he had he
managed to get back.
He had the good luck to strike home
just in watermelon time, and il is
needless to say he is enjoying him
sell.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
FEDERAL PROBE MADE
s.N WHOLESALE LYNGHINGS
Begun by Colonel Hunter of United
States Army. To Make a Full Re-
port


East ST. Louis, jury IA federal
investigation OF race riots here in
which thirty-three negroes and four
whites were killed and approximately
2i0 negro homes were burned Monday.
was begun today by Col. George IT,.
Hunter chlefquartermaster of the
central division Of the United States
army Col Hunter is under instrac-
tons 90 make a fun report of The trou-
Bile 10 Maj General Thomas II. Barry
at Chicago, commandment of the Cen.
trail Department.
The city was absolutely quiet today
and residents for the most part re-
manned in their homes. More tban
2ooo Illinois National Guardsmcn pa.
trolled the streets under orders 10
shoot if necessary. The city's Fourth
Of July celebration was called or and
all saloons and theatres remained
closed
Thre negro bodies wre ~ound 10.
day in Cahollia Creek bringing The
death list to b. civil authorities be-
gan the work OF collecting and pre-
pairing evidence 10 be presented 10 the
grand jury whom it conycues July9
Only two Of thc " men arrested Mon
day night on charges Of melting to
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
MouItria Gets Dixie League Penant.

Nopltrie, July 1.-THE Dixie League
season of 1917 came to an end with
double-headers yesterday.
MCultrie the winer of the first half
pennant, was officially declared the
rennant winner, as there will be no
post season to play the second half
winner.
The determination to close after to-
days game was reached when Triton,
Quitman and Moultrie all decided
that they wanted to close the season.
It was hoped to GO on until August II,
with four clubs, but Moultries decis.
ion at the last minute changed things
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
WE MUST FIGHT FOR
DEMOCRACY At HOME
While Armie Fight Abroad, Says Sec
rotary Baker. Indians Want to En-
list.

New York, July 4-Newton d. Ba.
ker Secretary of War, told a great
audience tonight at the Stadium of
i the College of the City of New York,
| where final exercises at the Fourth
Of July celebration was held, that
while the nation was preparing on a
gigantic scale for war Eve must fight
for democracy here at home as our ar
mics will fight for democracy abroad y
in the midst OF our military en-
terprise we must be actually loyal to
cur own political theories here" con
tinued Mr.. Baker. 1--WE must fight for
democracy here at home as our ar
mics will fight for democracy abroad.
All this reorganization of industry
must be made without the loss of the
great physical and social gains which
we have achieved in the last hundred
years.
1--WE must not allow The hours and
conditions of people who work in fac
tories and workshops to be upset ana
interfered with. We must agree in
deeds OF grace here as our soldiers to
deeds of grace on the other side For
| can see the day Whine this harbor
OF yours will be filled with ships bring
ing back our soldiers. They will come,
it may be with their ranks somewhat
thinned by sacrifice, but with them.
selves glorified by accomplishment.
And when these heroes step ashore
and tell us what they have won for
democracy in Europe, we must be able
to ell them in return that we have
kept the faith Of democracy at home
and won battles here for that cause
while they were fighting there"
Red Fox James, Blackfoot Indian,
aroused the audience when he pleaded
that his race be given a place in the
war.
my own people, the North Ameri-
can Indian, had heard the call to
arms" he said, "but you will not let
us answer. Do you not need us in
this terrible conflict? Are we to re-
main inactive when $4,000 Indians are
ready to serve as cavalry?
From all over the west we stand
ready to spring to the saddle We
stand ready to protect the 1,400 miles
Of border between the United States
and Mexico-500 900 men who know a
horse as no white man ever knew it.;
$4,000 men who can live where no
white man has ever lived, $4,000 In
dians, who when their hearts. are in a
cause as our hearts are in this cause,
would die for it as no other nation.
"Mr. Secretary" turning 10 Mr.
Baker. Call us to arms. Let us
guard and fight for our country"
Supported by her physician and her
secretary, Sarah Bernhardt, who had
been driven from her summer home
on Long Island tC Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, for the Fourth OF July cele-
bration, suddenly arose today as
Miss Margaret George was singing
the Marseillaise" and enthusiastically
joined with her The crowd of $4,000
or more people cheered the French
actress and demanded a speech. Nine
Bernhardt rspondd in French.
GAS a French woman" she said,
81 thank America for she has done
the most glorious act of the war in
raising her flag in the center OF the
flags Of the allies. America has moth
ing material to gain in the war. She
will, however, win immortal glory
for having defended liberty, justice
and independence
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Injured Man Receivers.

Waycross, July 7.-R. H. Husbands.
Atlantic Coast Line conductor, who
was so seriously injured in a motor
car derailment near Ty Ty a short
time ago, was able to leave the hos
pital today. His left wrist was broken,
right ankle badly wrenched, hip dis
located and his body bruised, in the
accident. The other occupants of the
car were uninjured
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Escaped Convict Caught.

Ludowici, July Floyd Hines, ne
gro convict OF Wayne county, who
escaped from Screyen yesterday morn
ing, was captured near here yesterday
j. G. Baggs, seeing Hines walking on
the Georgia Coast and Piedmont Rail
read in convict stripes, Immediately
pursued, and after a race of nearly a
mile, succeeded in capturing him. The
negro offered no resistance when
caught.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
County Agent on Job.

Waycross, July IL. S. Phelps,
Ware county's new demonstration
agent has arrived from Alabama and
has gone to work in earnest. He pro-
poses TO devote much time to the pig
clubs Of the county, already well es-
tablished, and is hopeful OF the boys
Of Ware making splendid showing
in the fall contests.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Melons Sell for 5000 a Car.

Statesboro, July 1.-THE watermelon
season has commenced in Bulloch
county, several cars being shipped
over the Savannah and Statesboro rail
way this week. The prices range in
the neighborhood Of 5000 car, some
cars bringing little over that amount
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
sIn Lumber Deal in RulIoch.

Statesboro, July 7.-One of the
largest timber deals ever consummat.
ed i'll this county was put on record
this week The deal was made between
j. Il. Rushing and his heirs and NJ. d.
ODDS Of Michigan. The transaction is
for 900 acres Of round timber on the
tract known as the J. b. Rushing place
three miles from Satesboro, the pur-
chase price being $2G,375.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Hear Patriotic Address.

Brunswick, July 7-Celebration of
the Fourth was on a larger scale than
ever before, and hundreds participated
in the parade. Under command Of
Judge Frank H. Harris it formed in
front of the city hall and marched to
the court house, where Col. C. P. Good
year delivered an address in keeping
with the patriotic spirit prevailing.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Quiet Celebration.

Waycross, July 7.-Waycros cele-
brater the Fourth in very quiet man
ner today. There was no set program
for the day. All business was at a
standstill, the stores closing for the
entire day. Practically all shops and
mills were closed also Baseball games
were the chief amusement offered
Many took advantage Of the holiday
to visit nearby seashore resorts, Ty-
bee drawing large crowd from Way
cross.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08
Three Months For Not Registering.

Macon, July Walter Tillman,
young white man from Savannah,
pleaded guilty here today to evading
the selective draft law and was SEN
fenced three months in the Chatham
county jail. after which he will he re
CURED to register.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08

The California wrentit is so differ
ent from any other bird of America
that il is placed in a genus and family
all its own.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08

Removing The cause before il be-.
comes a result is the hest kind OF
public health work.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-08

WATT & HOLMES HDW. co.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
WESTERN,

"Be game and do your duty" is Sen.
ator Stones advice to constituents in
Missouri.
Panic hit the Board of Trade Satur-
day when May wheat went whirling
aloft to 81. 14A.
Fire destroyed the camp of field am
bulance Company A of the United
States Army near Fort Bliss, Texas.
Government agents reported to
Washington that word has been re-
ceived of President Carranza's i'm.
prisonment in the palace at Mexico
City.
Five men were drowned and an
other is believed to be dying as the
result of the capsizing OF a boat in
the floodwaters of the Missouri river
at Bismarck, N. D.
Acting under instructions from
Washington, government officers took
into custody at San Francisco Lieut..
Wilhelm Won Brincken, aid to Franz
Bopp, former German consul general.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
WASHINGTON.

Mammoth loan to allies is plan of
administration.
Committee of Congress hears war
plans from Secretary Baker
The Senate military affairs commit
tee decided to recommend the immedi-
ate passage of the $27S,000,000 army
appropriation bill.
The War Department cancelled the
schedule under which civilian training
camps were to be established this
summer throughout the country.
Herbert C. Hoover will be asked by
the Council of National Defense to
head a national committee on food
supply and prices, to stimulate pro-
duction and to prevent speculative
prices.
German brutality and vandalism
among women and children, young and
old, in their retreat through northern
France, were arraigned in scathins
terms by Ambassador Sharp at Paris
in a dispatch to the State Department.
A great nationwide supply system,
with central depots and warehouses in
all the principal cities of the United
States, has been organized by the
American Red Cross to forward and
distribute all gifts and comforts for
American troops and military hosDi-
tails.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
GEN e RAL,

A gift of 100000 has been contrib.
uted by the Rockefeller foundation to
the commission for relief in Belgium.
Consul Lorrie reported to the State
Department the unwarned sinking of
the Portuguese bark Argo, New Or
leans to London.
Efforts of American farmers to
bring this years winter wheat crop to
record production for war time needs
apparently have been defeated by Sc.
we're weather conditions and a crop OF
only 43O.00O,O0O bushels is now ex.
pected.
Capt. Alfred a. Fritzen pleaded
guilty in United States District Court
in New York to having conspired with
Capt. Hans Tauscher to blow up tho
Welland canal and was sentenced to
eighteen months in the federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga.
A cablegram received in New York
by the Belgian relief commission stat
ed that the commissions steamship,
Anna Fostenes, which left New York
March 3. via Halifax, with a $35O.OOO
cargo of foodstuffs, for Rotterdam,
had been sunk.
Pro-American sentiment Is spread
ing rapidly in Mexico and Gen. Car.
rama is reported to be considering
routing all Germans out of the Mexi-
can army, according to information
sent to Washington by United States
Consul johnson in Matamoros.
United States armed forces seized
all German ships in all American
ports Friday-ninety-one vessels. 1t
was Americas first act of war.
A Columbia, Tenn, dispatch says
Andrew ]. Armstrong, a negro, IS in
custody upon the charge of rebellion
and treason in default of $4,000
bond.
The engagement was announced in
Boston of Miss Grace Lockwood, only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas St.
John Lockwood of that city, to Archi-
bald Roosevelt. third son of Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE JuLESBURG
IRRIGATION DISTRICT.
April 3, 1917.

Present: Directors B. D. Parker
H. Brandt d. T. Bush, superintend
ent; C. NJ. Robson, attorney, and r. ]
Dobell secretary.
The minutes of March 13, 1917, were
read and approved.
During the morning the Board, hav
ing inspected the condition OF the
northeast quarter of Sec. 2, Twp. II
n, Range 46 W., motion was made
seconded and carried that if the own
ers, Johnson Brothers, would have
same surveyed and present petition
with engineers plat and certificate
that they would probably act favora
bly, of the exclusion of such part OF
same that could not be successfully IT.
seepage places.
Mr.. e. H. Morley, who had previous
ly appeared before the Board and
asked for a new headgate to water
his land and the same had been held
over till the Board could inspect same
the secretary was instructed to
write Mr.. Morley that he could
continue to use the same lateral he
has been using in the past. or if he de-
sired that the Board would consent to
a new headgate being put in under
the direction of the superintendent,
and Mr.. Morley paying all expense OF
same.
The superintendent was Instructed
to get Tic engineer and to have sur
veyed the necessary land for right OF
way and other purposes on the Lodge
Pole Creek on the west one-half of the
southeast quarter of Section twenty
nine. Township twelve N, Range for
be closed up.
A communication was read from the
Haley-Harris Co. and the matter was
referred to the attorney for adjust
ment.
The Union Pacific Railroad Co. bill,
held over from the last meeting was
again held over till the district had
heard from them in reference to GER
tain credits.
A motion was made, seconded and
carried that c. NJ. Robson, attorney
for the district, be instructed to file
4 brief amicus curae in the Supreme
Court in the case OF the North Ster-
ling Reservoir VS.. Dickman.
The following claims were read by
the secretary and allowed by the
Board and warrants were ordered
drawn for same:
Mountain States Tel. & Tel.
Co, rentals ..............S 1870
Union Pacific Railroad Co.,
rentals ....-...-. J.oV
A. Jankovsky. supplies .... $40
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
SPORT.

The stakes which will be raced for
during the 1917 season in Austria and
Hungary will aggregate $2,00O,OO0.
Buck" Sterzer. who pitched for
Denver Club of the Western League
last year and the year before, is a
free agent. He was handed his un.
conditional release by "Hughie" Jones,
owner.
The board of stewards Of the Inter.
collegiate Rowing Association, by a
telegraphic vote, declared off the in.
tercollegiate regatta set for Pough.
keepsie Thursday, June 21. ON account
of the war.
Northwestern University won the
440-yard intercollegiate swimming
race in the tanks Of the Chicago Ath.
letic Association. Only Northwestern
swimmers participated in the event.
The time was 1858 As, said to be q
new intercollegiate record, the former
record, 4:O2 3-5, being held by Yale.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
Evolution Of Windows.
Secretary

Toward the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries the mulliOneG windows, made
up Of small elliptical or diamond
shaped pieces of glass, were used for
ordinary dwelling houses, remaining
in vogue, more or less, until in the
eighteenth century we reached the
style of window familiar to us in the
early Victorian era-the rectangular
opening fitted with wooden frame
work and squares, filed in with glass
panes and depending for their archt-
tectural effect on the nodded jambs
and the Intel friezes and cOrnices over
the window top-many examples Of
which are still to be found in the old
quarters of New York
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
Beet Sugar Acreage Signed Up.

Greeley. - Although the Farmers
Union and other organizations in
northern Colorado are agitating for an
increased price for sugar beets, the
Great Western Sugar Company Is
signing up all the acreage the fac
tories will take Out of the 1900
acres allotted to the Greeley factory,
100 acres already have been signed
for, and the rest of the acreage for
the Windsor. Eaton and part of the
Brighton, Loveland and Longmont
factories, to which some of the beets
of this county go, estimated at 10000
acres, has reached more than $4,000
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
For the Modest Goldfish.

A good many people seem TO be ig-
norant OF tte shadow-lOving nature Of
the goldfish and they expose the poor
little shrinking captives In glarIng
crystal bowls with not even shred
OF moss to hide in. This only proves
that people who undertake the respon-
sibility of caring for live pets do not
take the trouble to study their habits
and quite thoughtlessly subject them
to torture. 4 water plant. a pile Of
coral or any little shelter is ail that Is
needed. hut something in common de-
cency should he --l-ided.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
EoaEloss.

Conditions in Spain have become
normal again.
Thirty-four are killed in explosion
OF mine in British Columbia.
United States ftads causs worthy Of
her traditions declares Lloyd George.
Kaiser orders that drafts of proposed
constitutional reforms be submitted 70
him.
The lafayette Flying Corps. CON-
posed of American aviators. has shat
down thirty German airplanes. accord
ing to q emi-official Paris communi-
cation.
The complete text of President VIII
sons message arrived In Berlin BY
wireless. After . careful study the
foreign office declared that there will
be no official reply.
President Wilson's message align
ing the United States with the nations
fighting against Germany was warmly
welcomed and unanimously acclaimed
by the British people.
The French Cabinet at . meeting
presided over by President Poincars.
decided to have President Wilson's
war message to Congress posted on oil
public billboards In France.
A Vienna telegram says that II is Of.
ficially announced that .234.610. 900
kronen have been raised as result Of
the fifth Austrian war loan. The new
money is said to BE- 4.464. .61O, 900 kro.
nen.
The Norwegian steamer Camilla,
with q cargo of corn for the Belgian
relief commission. according to Reu.
ter dispatch from Copenhagen. has
been sunk without warning. with the
loss OF two lives.
Minister Of Justice Kerensky said In
an Interview at Petrograd that II the
German people would follow the Rus
sian example and dethrone their en-
peror. I'VE offer the possibility of pre-
liminary negotiations"
A herd of nine American buffaloel
obtained from Hagenbeck in Ham
burg, has Just been taken to Sweden
through the efforts Of Prof. C. " Hart
man of the ethnographic department
Of the royal museum.
President Wilson's appeal for dem
ocracy in Germany seemingly has ere
ated much apprehension in conserva
tive circles in Germany, judging by
the energy with which the nationalist
and reactionary newspapers are cam
paigning against it.
France and America shook hands
across the sea. In every school in
the French republic teachers read to
their pupils two historic speeches
that OF President Wilson to Congress
and that made by Premier Ribot In
Parliament, greeting the United States
as an ally.