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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24
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NEWS

We had no news last week on &C
count of the writer being in Savannah
and Richland on school and church
work
We attended the commencement of
the Georgia State College to see our
boy, Xavier, graduate. The school is
a good institution with strong fac
ulty, with president r. R. Wright as
it's active head The commission was
there in the person of Judge P. w.
Melden, Savannah, Judge Harmon of
Atlanta and Col. Calvin of Augusta,
who heartily approved the work.
The crops along the railway lines
seem to be small for the season OF
the year We noted quite a deal Of
tobacco planted. This, of course, is a
new industry.
Rev Pollard preached a very inter
estng sermon at Bethel church last
Sunday night Rev. Pollard is state
representative for the Pilgrim COM
pany.
Mr.. Herman Adams formerly of
CCrdele, died in Atlanta and theb ody
was sent here. 1t was taken charge of
by Mann's undertaking apartment.
Prof. ]. II. Wilson, agent for Pilgrim
tn &c ctr
intelligent gentleman, and made quite
a hit at the big mass meeting Tues
day night at Bethel.
Mrs. A. S. Clark has organized a
reading circle that meets each Thurs
day afternoon.
Miss Ethel Rivers has organized an
Art Club which meets each Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. Dr. Wilson has organized a
tennis club. They play each Thurs
day afternoon.
Jim Ryals, a poor cripple, away
from home, and in sad and poverty
stricken condition, died Friday. The
body was prepared for burial at Don
dee's undertaking apartments.
Sim Ross motar car went up to
Plains and Americas, carrying Mes
srs. Ross, Williams, King, Verdell,
Murray and Sylvester Smith at the
wheel The writer was to have gone
but the car goes too fast so he chang
ed his mind
Rev. Pearcy of Byromville was in
the city this week.
Miss Agnes McKinna, head of the
| Juvenile Welfare Work, has held
three meetings with the colored peo-
rle We are alIdelighted with her
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24
ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART
TO REDUCE THE HIGH COST

Everybody everywhere is trying to
to tell you that the cost of food and
goods in nearly every other line have
doubled. Some Of that is necessary
and you have to meet it as best you
can
We do not want to argue with you
about that What we want now is to
have you know that you can make rice
on that low land spot you have run
ming idle Rice is food commodity
and when you make it you are helping
to reduce the cost at home.
We want to tell you that Georgia
is said to be the best soil for broom
corn in the United States. Broom
corn is now gone to prices beyond all
reason and people who sell us brooms
say they cannot help themselves.
Brooms are all the time more in de-
mand and the very material with
which they make them is diminishing
Georgia is a great one on broom corn
ask your own seed man. Help bring
back the price Of brooms to normal
cost by growing and selling some
broom corn. 1t is not too late.
There isn't broom factory within
fifty miles of Cordele and you are to-
day paying double prices for your own
common little commodity. the broom.
Do you want to help start something
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24
FARMER CRUSHED TO
DEATH BENEATH HORSE
Prominent Muscoeee Farmer Killed
When Animal, Being Soisted from
Ravine with Rope, Falls Upon Him.

Columbus, June 22.-John A. David,
aged sc years, was almost instantly
killed at his farm near Columbus to-
day while engaged with others in try
ing to get an injured horse out of a
small ravine. Mr.. Davis was in the
ravine directing the work of extricat-
ing the animal, which was being haul
ed out by means of ropes, when in
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24
in what she attempts to do.

in what she attempts to do.
Rev. w. T. Moore will preach at
Bethel tomorrow morning.
The convocation will be held at
Bethel church every night next week.
All are invited.
Prof. Wilson will have charge of
the review of the Sunday School I'm
ion to- be held at the First Baptist
church Sunday.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

some manner the huge body tumbled
back into the ditch, crushing the life
out of Mr.. Davis. The deceased was a
prominent citizen of this county. He
is survived by two sisters and one
brother.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

The awful question, What shall |
have for dinner?" is easily answered
if your shelves are full of home cam
ed products.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

FOR RENT-My home located corner
Second avenue and Sixth street af-
ter July /. If interested, see Harris &
Ballenger. Alex Martin. 15-7t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

Our mill is now in good shape. We
are grinding new wheat for public and
making very fine grade flour Send
us your wheat and see what we can
do for you. l. NJ. Powell & Sons Mill
ing Co. iS-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

Learn how to produce some broom
corn as side line. The factory will
jump up overnight in Cordele. Then
brooms will be cheap again. The dol
lars we get hold of now are only worth
fifty cents,-that is, we can buy only
half what we used to buy with them.
Part of the fault lies at our own door.
Now, back to those fruit jars again.
We had mighty big run on them for
we have prices that beat the world,
but we are still able to fill your order.
Refresh your mind on our prices we
made you last week and come on now
while you can get them.
And too, we have on display the
peanut digger that does the work.
This is one Of the implements that
makes it easy to work a substitute
for cotton. Remember, the boil weevil
knows nothing about the peanut. The
hail doesn't destroy peanuts and there
is whole lot of other good argument.
If you are game Georgia cracker
you can make peanuts.
One other thing: Holmes Ideal
Scrape was designed by us for our
customers to meet just our need. 1t
is made for us and sold only through
our house. 1t is the only article we
ever sold with guarantee that has
never had a come back. Ask to see it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

Can't eat em all in summer? Not
enou in winter? Home canning is
the answer
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

To prevent snoring an inventor has
patented a sort of halter that keeps
the sleeper's mouth closed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

Young man 16 years old just out
of school desires work of some kind.
Any honorable employment satisfac
tory. Call Dispatch Business office.
12-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

FOR RENT-Five room house, cor
ner 9Th ST. and 10th Ave. All open
ings screened, water and electric
lights, first class bathroom fixtures.
F. G. Boatright. 1twk-4wks
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

That rubber ring you put on pre-
serving jar helps you to stretch your
income.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

Grinding for public solicited, and
new flour and shorts for sale. I. M.
Powell & Sons Milling Co. 13-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

One of the newest vacuum bottles
can be taken entirely apart for cleans
ing.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

FOR SALE-Grist mill, 80 h. p. boiler,
Is h. p. engine, and saw mill; all in
good condition, cheap. Would eX-
change for live stock. Address D. D.
Pearce. Seville. Ga. 12-9t-pd
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

PLENTY MONEY TO LEND-On i'm
proved city ard farm property. c.
NJ. Mckenzie. 18TH
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

QUICK LOANS-Made on both city
and farm lands. See C. M. McKen.
zie. sass S'N'1F = e ! l. 79-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

FO RRENT-Store room formerly oc-
cupied by Stead's Drug Store; will
be for rent after August l. For in
formation apply to w. c. Mckenzie.
lift.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

Government test applied to all
wheat Can tell you in few minutes
exact amount flour, shorts and bran
your wheat turns out l. NJ Powell
& Sons Milling Co. 13-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

LOST--Purse containing registration
card for r, B. Giddens, Eastman, Ga.
| am blind, but would like to get
purse and registration card. Will find
er please return to R. B. Giddens,
Eastman, Ga. 20-1t-pd
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

FOR RENT-My home in East Cor
dele. Apply Mrs. Geo. A. Ballenger,
Phone 172. 19-3t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-24

FOUND-Boy's bicycle. Apply to Del
mar Mitchell, Sixth Ave, and Sew
enth ST., N. Owner must pay for this
ad. colt
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
French Capture Two Lines
On Front of Two Miles

LONDON, Nov. 26-General Petals
backed up Field Marshal Haig today.
While Germany was desperately comb
ing her lines for reinforcS nents to stem
the tide of the British advance on Cam
brai, France struck a sharp, sudden blow
out Of Verdun. First and second lines
Of enemy defense positions. and 500 pris-
oners captured were the net results of
this highly localized attack over a front
Of more than two miles. The ground
taken was in a highly important sector
of the enemy lines between Samogneaux
north OF Hill 344 Strong fighting was
reported in progress.
Field Marshal Haig reported today
that since utter failure Of the German
attacks at midday yesterday around
Bourbon, the enemy had not repeated the
assault there.
Along the British front, Byng's war
machine was still forcing the fighting
around Cambria. Positions have been
taken and retaken, held and lost
half a dozen times around here-but.
the British grip on the Bourbon wood
itself was mistaken. The less important
village of Bourbon was half German and
half British, with desperate lighting
progressing over its ruins.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
GERMAN SECTOR IS
STUNNED BY BL D "
OF GEN. BYNG'S DRIVE
General Petain Hits Suddenly
at Verdunr Taking Two leu
ton Defense Lines on Width
of Two Miles
BY WILLIAM PHILIP s1MMs

WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD. Nov. 26.-The sixth day
of General Byngs great drive today
saw Cambria and Queant both webbing
from the great crack in the Hindenburg
lines and the everlasting battering OF
the British troops.
The Crown Prince Rupprecht's garri-
son at Queant, head of the switch
line" is directly imperilled. The town
is almost surrounded.
Cambria is useless to the enemy. To-
day 1t had been cut off from Queant
by the British hold on Bourbon village.
The Queant defenders, therefore, had
only a precarious line of communjca-
tons to the north.
The dominating heights of Bourbon
have been saturated with German blood
spilled in mad assaults to, take this
promontory. Whoever holds Bourbon
wood holds a constant menace over the
land for miles on either side. The
wood itself has been literally blasted
away. The village is a crumbling
powder of ruins. The whole German
sector is rocking with the shock of inn
pact of the British battering ram.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
CEMENT COMPANY
EMPLOYEES GIVE
TO TOBACCO FUND
Seven-Year-0Id Atlanta Boy
Puts in Quarter to Buy
Smokes for Georgia Soldier
Boys in France

Sixteen employees of the Carolina
Portland Cement company Of Atlanta,
were the star contributors Monday to
The Journals tobacco fund for American
boys in the trenches, sending $6.25 to
purchase smokes for twenty-five SOL
diers. The only other contributors dur
ing the morning were Mrs. K. L. Burt,
whose subscription amounted to Is
cents, and Walter Paschall, 7-year-old
Atlanta boy, who sent in 25 cents.
Here are the names of the Carolina
Portland Cement employees who remem-
bered the soldiers during Thanksgiving
week:
A. f. Richardson. so; W. B. Martin,
so; r L. Hutchinson, so; T. E. Addison,
so, w. A. Baker. .25; J. A. Maloney,
so; s. f. Lee rs; Miss K. NJ. Bailey,
.25: Miss Minnie Hilderbrand. /.25; Miss
+. A. Pugh, rs; Mrs. E. W. Holland.
rs; l. S. Shropshire, so; John Rude
sal. SO: c. F. Summers, rs; w. III.
Hair, So, and G. r. Sabin. 80.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
Many Georgians
Are Made Officers

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Nov. 26.-
Commissions were awarded today to the
$500 graduates of the second officers
training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
which was opened three months ago and
closed today with impressive ceremonies.
Geenral william p. Duvall, commander
of the department of the southeast, was
the principal figure at the exercises.
which were held on the rolling drill
grounds of Camp Warden MCLEAN. Cen
eral Duvall complimented highly Major
Thomas NJ. Anderson, senior instructor
at the training camp, and his associates,
in a short speech preceding the delivery
of the commissions to the company COM
manders, who in turn presented them to
the various candidates.
The newly commissioned officers are
now free until December Is, when they
will report at the respective camps
where they are assigned.
Many Atlantians. many .Georgians and
many southerners are in the list of COM
missioned candidates
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
Story of Sunday Battle
By British at Bourbon

BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FANCE, Sunday, Nov. 25.-(By the As
ISOLATED Press.)-This morning found
the line of battle of the weary but de-
termined British troops stretched IL :
semi-circle about Bourbon wood and
Bourbon village, which nestles at the
southeastern edge of the forest Its
line had been established in the face Of
logged resistance by the Germans who
had fallen back step by step fighting
with the fury of despair.
All day Saturday the opposing forces
struggled bitterly at close quarters for
possession of the little village from
which the British were forced Friday,
after gaining a footing in the rush that
took them through the Bourbon wood.
Nightfan still found waves of infan-
try surging back and forth through the
streets Of the hamlet and among the
houses, their crimson bayonets telling
the story of the terrible conflict. Grad
ualiy the Germans fell back, the Brit
Continued on Page 9, Column 81
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
TRADE COUNCIL To
SPUR INDUSTRIES To
HIGHER PRODUCTION
Foreign Trade Must Develop
to Enable Country to Use Its
Full Strength in Winning
War, Says Council

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-American in
dustries must be stimulated to high pro-
duction and Americas foreign trade
must develop to enable this country to
use it's full strength in winning the
war, declares the national foreign trade
council in a report submitted today to
President wilson.
practically all the money in the al
| lied portions of the world, and most Of
| that held by neutrals. in time. can be
made available for our war emergencies
| if our production constantly provides a
proper basis for foreign trade" says
the council.
The report was prepared by Lewis E.
Pierson, chairman of the board Of d.
rectors of the Irving National bank. of
New York. 1t will be submitted to the
ways and means committee Of the house
| of representatives and to the finance
committee of the senate.
1t was drawn up in an effort by the
council to aid the government in the
fixing of commodity prices and in the
| taxation of business profits. These
problems are described by the council
as perhaps the most serious and difficult
the government has ever encountered in
| it's relation to business interests.
| Asserting that in an ideal plan for
price fixing and profit taxing, high pro-
duction and not low prices should be
the controlling consideration the REPORT
says:
IF the final determination of the war
| Is to be measured to any considerable
extent by the relative economic power
| of the belligerents-and, of course, 1t
will be so measured-the existence of
| the things which money can buy will
be of far greater importance than the
possession of money itself"
That leads up to the statement that
most of the money in the allied and
neutral world can be made available
| for our war emergencies by proper
maintenance of foreign trade. For it is
| foreign trade, says the report, that lis
: the source from which the greater por-
ton of our gold must come, and from
which our national gold reserve will de-
rive IT'S greatest security. Foreign trade
also provides the possibility of keep
ing the entire national energy at all
times employed in profitable produc-
| ton by creating a foreign demand for
| products for which there would be no
demand at home.
| Effectiveness of American participa-
ton in the war, says the National For
eign Trade council, demands the main
tenance Of production in practically all
lines at the maximum capacity, and the
| maintenance of foreign trade during the
war is a most efficient means of pre-
venting disturbance of credit. insuring
| funds with which to meet the needs OF
| government in taxation or loans; sta
/ bilizing conditions OF industry and main
| tanning the economic structure of the
| nation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
BILL AND PRAYER
FROM BILLY FOR
TESTAMENT FUND
Miss Annie B. Northen Is
Second Contributor With
Check for S15 to Help SOL
dierS Put on "ArmOr of God"

With a prayer and a ten-dollar bill,
Billy Sunday has started The Journals
Soldiers Testament Fund" off to a ny
ing start. 4
Close behind Rev. Billy has come Miss
Annie B. Northen. of 734 Piedmont ave.
nue., with a check for SIS, and the hope
that her contribution would help the
soldiers put on the whole armor of
God, taking the helmet of salvation and
the sword of the spirit which is the
word of Cod"
The aid OF the Lord in making the
fund a success was petitioned by Mr..
Sunday in his prayer at the conclusion
of his afternoon sermon Sunday.
"One of the papers IS getting up
a fund 10 provide the soldiers with
Testaments, Lord" Billy said. ITS
The Journal Bless the paper, Lord
may every man who goes to France
take one of these Testaments with
him"
Afterwards Mr. Sunday declared that
The Journals Testament fund campaign
is a splendid thing. To a reporter he
said:
The campaign has my heartiest
approval. There are so many splen-
did things for the public to help
now that it difficult to place one
above another. But / believe there
Every soldier wants Testament
and il looks to me like this is a
corking good way to provide the
whole lot of them with volumes
that are easy to carry and are well
protected against possible damage.
am sure The Journal will make
The fund a success.
, The contributions of Mr.. Sunday
and Miss Northen will buy the first
hundred Testaments, for the soldiers.
The books will cost rs cents each, so
each quarter contributed means that
another soldier will be provided with a
Bible. The books are bound in khaki
and made Of n size which can he car
ried in the comfort sacks, are printed
legibly. on good paper and free from
the usual trapplngs of gilt. They are
being published by the American Bible
society.
The Testamonts will be placed in the
hands of the soldiers in Georgia camps
and it is the purpose OF the campaign to
provide Bible for each and every SOL
der before he leaves this state FOR
service on the nattlefields in France.
These Testaments are really the book
for the fighting man They will carry
into the trenches the message Of a re-
ligious militant for righteousness. the
religion of strength, purity and sacrl-
flee.
Military leaders have confirmed the
belief that this message. translated
mo life, will do much toward building
up and sustaining army morale and to
promoting the spirit necessary to vic
tory.
While the campaign in Georgia is be-
ing conducted by The Journal, the
American Bible society is working on
plans for A national Bible week to be-
gin December 2. During this week the
society, with the cooperation of the
churches of the country, hope TO raise
100000 for the purchasing of Tesla
ments for American troops now in
France and the others to follow.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
Twenty Deaf Mutes
Among First to Hit
Trail For Evangelist

About twenty deaf-mutes were among
the first to hit the sawdust trail at
the Billy Sunday tabernacle Sunday
morning
They listened to Billys sermon by
pNoxy, as it were, Billy's remarks be-
ing translated through the medium of
the fingers of W. F. Crusselle, a trus-
tee of the Georgia Academy for the
Deaf at Cave Spring.
ID Although he himself has full use of
all his faculties. Mr.. Crusselle has be-
come expert in the sign language
through years of work for the deaf
AS Billy talked Mr.. Crusselle's fingers
flew fast The mutes nodded and
smiled to show that they understood.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
British Hold All Points
Dominating City of Cambria

NEW YORK, Nov 2s.-(By Cable
from European Capitals.) - British
troops have captured the high ground
in Bourbon wood and now dominate the
region about Cambria This success
came after two days of the most VII
cious fighting, and its Importance is in
dicated in part by the fact that Ger
man traffic southeast from Cambria
has been heavy, the probability being
that the civil population of the town
has been removed.
General Byng's latest triumph was
one of hard and heroic endeavor. In
paying tribute to the third army, Field
Marshal Haig declares that the capture
of the Bourbon position crowns a most
successful operation, and opens the
waN to the further exploitation of adj
vantages already gained"
Apparently the British commander
will push his advantage still further
and besiege Cambria, three miles to the
east.
Bourbon village changed hands three
times in the desperate battling for the
possession of IL and the adjoining wood
Severe fighting continues there, and the
Germans. massing their best troops in
efforts to retrieve the position which
means all to the security of Cambria,
pressed back the British from parts OF
the village Sunday. General Byng's men
withstood attacks on the wood and hold
the high ground intact. There also has
been heavy fighting west Of Moeuvres,
southeast of Queant.
In six days General Byng and the
third army have broken the Hindenburg.
line, taken a score Of villages, secured
the dominating position west of Cam
brai and overrun territory equal in area
to that gained in the first three months
of the drive in the Ypres salient. Near
iy 10000 prisoners, one hundred ma
chine guns and much war material have
been captured. More important still.
probably, is the further exploitation"
to which Field Marshal Haig refers in
his congratulatory message.
Around Verdun, the pivot point of the
German line in France there has been
heavy fighting in which the French
have been victorious After repulsing
a strong German attack on the right
bank of the Mouse near hill 344 the
French attacked the enemy on a front
Of more than two miles in the same
region. They occupied the first and sec
ond German lines, and captured more
than sight hundred prisoners.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
German. People Believe that u
Boats Are Besting England, and
that France Is Co1lapsing

and that if they will just hold out they will win
this
He gives you the facts that he has learned about
this worldwide war, and what few of the great
German publicists think
Get this paper and keep up with these accounts
of the German sentiments and their will-to-endure
attitude. There is TO be nine of these series and
this is only the second Don't miss the following
seven, which will be printed in each issue of THE
ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
If you are not subscriber now, or if you are.
and your subscription is paid in advance, sign
your name to the coupon below and forward TO US
today with rs cents for IL months, S1.OO for Is
months or 81 .25 for "a months. Or, better still,
get I'D a club of five subscribers. The
price for club of five more at one time is SO
cents each.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27
Your devoted wife.

DAJ-A , IIfNI1.
Before coming to court today Mrs
De Saulles put in her orders for a full
Thanksgiving dinner for every one of
the seventy-five prisoners in Nassau
county jail