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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
Big LEAGUE BALL
STIRS MANY FANS
LOCAL BASEBALL MANAGEMENT
MAKING EXTENSIVE PREPARA-
TON FOR COMING OF NEW
YORK AND BOSTON TEAMS.

This is baseball weather. A better
season could not be picked for the
sport, and it is certain that the pro-
fsssional league game between the
Boston Braves and the New York
Yankees on the Cordele field on the
afternoon of March %, will furnish
this sport in its highest and most en-
tertaining order. 1t is also as certain
that there will be an immense crowd
of fans from all over the section to
witness the game, if the weather re-
mains as near pleasant as it is now.
Through the newspapers in the sur
rounding towns and advertising mat
ter scattered broadcast, the game is
being brought to the attention of fans
for a radius of forty to fifty miles,
and a great deal of enthusiasm has
resulted among the fans. There is
promise that every town and COM
munity will be well represented. Cor
dele expects a crowd equal to any
that has ever been here before.
New bleachers have been erected
to seat the fans, and improvements
have been completed on other bleach
ers and the grand stand. The grounds
are in perfect shape.
Photos of the teams and individual
players together with sketches have
been forwarded from the management
of the two teams and will reach The
Dispatch within few days for publ
cation.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
ABOUT TIE FAIR.
Cordele, Ga, March 5, 1917

| Cordele, Ga, March 5, 1917.
Mr.. Crisp County Farmers, Mr.. Cor
dele Business Men:
Gentlemen:-Both your interests
are identical, and your success de-
ponds on your cooperation.
Your destiny is largely in your own
hands, and grave question confronts
you.
Do you want county fair?
If you do, you have no time to lose.
A fair should be planted in the ground.
A county fair is an index or show
window to advertise a city and coun-
ty, and to show off its resources and
advantages to the outside world.
Our county and city is lurking and
getting to be a back number, compar-
ed with the other cities and counties
of our great state. Our sister coun-
| ties are forging ahead of US We can
not stand still We must either pro-
gress or retrograde.
To help boost our city and county,
placing them in the position they
should occupy, we have spent more
| than 500 Zone hundred dollars), try
ing to enthuse, advertise secure priv
ileges and obtain information, rela-
ltiNe to-.putting- ON. a first, class fair.
So far as we can see, we must not
receive any thanks and very little real
encouragement. But, eve still have
faith in our people" We are true
blue, patriotic and willing to give way
to some one in whom the people have
| faith and confidence. Some men or
set of men take the initiative and we
wait some move by our newspapers
and business men to launch and pull
off a successful fair.
| We offered to guarantee to raise
81 900 premium list and to finance the
remainder ourselves. out of our own
rockets, we only asked for certain
rights and privileges, concessions, the
cooperation and moral support OF all
our people We intended to give one.
one day, free ticket to each school
child and old soldier in Crisp coun-
| ty, to give free pass to our mayor
and aldermen; also to each minister
of the gospel, as well as a pass to
each bonafide member OF the boys
corn club and girls canning club and
of course free space or pass to each
exhibitor with booth. Further, we
proposed to form a stock company to
handle the entire proposition, giving
the farmers of Crisp county and the
| merchants Of Cordele a chance to
purchase shares in same.
Now we feel that we were willing
TO do all that any fair-minded man
would ask and if any other man or
company of men will do as well or
better, we will donate 800 worth OF
premiums towards their success.
! We thank our mayor and aldermen
for their permit and newspapers FOR
their space, also the railroads for
| their response to our call and a few
| friends for their encouragement. We
| still have a few doubling Thomases
| and knockers. Envy, prejudice and
/ jealousy are still with us.
| Now gentlemen, this is just how we
| feel. But we still believe Cordele
| md Crisp county could, should, must
and will have county fair.
| Yours for a successful fair,
j. R. KELLY.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
PROSPERITY EMPHASIZING ,
RTUNITIES OF SOUTH
its in Dixie Are, Increasing
Rapidly and Steadily, Report OF IN
dustrial index Shows.

Columbus, March 5.-The Industrial
Index says in it's issue of this week:
prosperity is emphasizing oppor-
tunity in the southeats, and invest
ment is increasing constantly. This
is true particularly with regard to
enterprises Off the utilization of re-
sources.
"The graphite industry of sections
of Alabama, rapidly expanding into
great Importance, is attracting capital
from other parts of the country,
Misunderstanding lands are being Sc
cured and mines are being opened in
Alabama coal fields, and the steel and
iron industry in that state is expert
encing a new activity with great de-
mand and higher prices. 49,.
"Florida, eastern and Canadian in
vestors have purchased a tract of
1 900 acres on an island near Apalar
chicola, Fla, with the purpose of max
ing it a winter resort, with number
of fine residences. Although Florida
hotels provided for an increased num-
Der of winter visitors this season, so
great has been the tourist travel into
Florida that plans are being made
already for providing still more hotel
facilities.
Many New Corporations.
"Twenty-four corporations have al
ready been formed during the week.
with minimum capital stock aggregat-
ing $777,00O. esjfa
"Bay county, Florida, is preparing
to build about 200 miles of roads and
the necessary bridges in connection.
Bacon county, Georgia, will vote upon
800 900 of bonds for building court
house, Jail and roads. Fountain Inn,
S. c., will vote upon electric light
plant, sewer and waterworks system
bonds, and Troy, Ala, upon high school
building bonds. .....
among the items of construction
work to be done as reported this week,
are the following:
Church building, Iva, S. c.; city
hall, West Greenville, S. c.; factory
building, Quincy. Fla. hotel building
addition, Miami, Fla; roads, Tishomin
go and Union counties, Mississippi;
paving, forsyth and Savannah, Ca;
school buildings, Florence Ala, and
Greenville, S. c. Construction con-
tracts have been awarded as follows:
Church buildings, Beufort and
Spartanburg, S. c.; factory buildings,
Cornith Miss, and Titusville, Fla;
hotel building, Atlanta, Ga; hospital
building, Laurel, Miss; paving, Flor
ence, Ala, and Vicksburg, Miss. pack
ing plant building foundations, Triton,
Ga.
industrial plants will be establish
ed as follows: ca.
''Box factor, Biloxi Miss. brick fac
tory, Moline, Fla; bottling plants,
Hartwell and Home, Ca; cannery,
Birmingham, Ala; cooperage plant,
Mo bile, Ala feed and flour mill,
Thomson, Ca and Zephyrhills, Fla.
A company, is to be Incorporated to
build a railway in southern Florida.
A street railway at Admission, Ala,
will be extended" t4bnatI9 I'd
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07

O'Neal High school to be used. Here
thousands of people may be seated
comfortably and it is practically GER
tain that the show has had no more
comfortable place where it has been
seen, for the crowds always packed
to the last standing room. .
Manager Cain has the show in his
hands for two evenings on account of
the fact that it will require fully that
length of time for the larger crowls
to witness it.
Thousands of people will see "The
Birth of Nation" while it is here, 1t
will be their opportunity and the local
movie man is going far out of the way
to bring the great show for them.
Yes, there are others, but none
OF them are in the class with this one
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
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$4,000 AUTO LICENSE TAGS
ISSUED DURING 1915

Atlanta, March 6.-That Georgia's
prosperity is increasing apace with
the prosperity of other sections of the
country is proven by the fact that il
will take $4,000 automobile license
tags to supply the owners Of motor
vehicles for the year 1917, which is
an increase of 10000, or rs per cent
over the $4,000 license issued in 1916
A series of electric buttons, the cor
rect combination of which to produce
results is known only to Authorized per
sons, feature one automobile starter
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
INDISTINCT PR I'M

will occur at Sunnyside cemetery.
Three brothers og young Reed, A. NJ.
Reed, E. E. Reed and J. H. Reed, all
of Hastings, Fla, were Immediately
notified of his death, and all have ar
rived in the city. Derrell Reed of Mil
len, another brother, and Mrs. Ruby
Reeves, of Rhine, sister, have also
arrived to attend the funeral and bur
ial. The deceased has three other
brothers and one sister in Cordele, A.
E., D. D. and Memetros Reed and Miss
Juanita Reed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
cATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION
MEETS IN ATLANTA IN APRIL

Atlanta, March 6.-No meeting of
greater importance will be held in the
south this year than that of the con-
yention of the Southern Cattlemen's
association which will assemble more
han six hundred cattle breeders of
he south in Atlanta April 4, 5, 6, for
, discussion Of their problems.
The live stock industry is develop
ng so rapidly throughout the south
hat not only cattle breeders but also
bankers, packing house people, and
other big interests will be represented
at this meeting. Officers of the
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07

Jerre Simpkins is a negro and a
cripple who can't walk step, but
taking advantage of the presumption
that he couldn't be made to work,
though he was caught, he learned how
to be a blind tiger" of the first de-
gree, if the matter of putting out the
largest quantity entities him to this
distinction. Apparently, he sold pea
nuts for a living, and always rode
to and from his house and through
the street behind a team Of goats
hitched to homemade wagon, just
large enough to carry himself, his
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07

JUDGE U. V. WHIPPLE.
Judge Lambdin on the federal bench
sor the Southern District of Georgia
The following is from today's Con-
stitution:
Washington, March ct was re-
ported in official circles today that the
recommendation of U. V. Whipple, of
Cordele, to be federal judge of the
southern district of Georgia, would be
sent to the president by the attorney
general today or tomorrow. The SEN
tie is now in session for the confirma-
ion of large batch of appointees and
f Georgia senator's approve, the nom
nation will be put through within a
short time.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
OFFICERS CAUGHT GOAT WAGON
BLIND TIGER AND CRIPPLE

peanuts, and his liquor, for he added
a depository for his latter ware, which
enabled him to carry four full quarts
This was the amount of liquor which
Officer Estes and others of the police
officers obtained when they invaded
his movable locker and temporarily
placed him under arrest, providing a
punishment, in view of his being I'M
able to work, that he leave town. So
far as is known, he has left town, but
his absence permanent.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
NEGRO INFANT DIES WHEN
SMOTHERED IN BED

A four months old infant of Joe c,
Jackson and his wife, negroes living
on the farm OF John McClendon, was
smothered to death Tuesday night,
the parents finding 1t dead Wednes,
day morning when they awoke.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
JUDGE WHIpPLE MAY
NOW HAVE jUDGESH|P
REPORTED IN WASHINGTON THAT
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL
FAVOR NOMINATION OF COR
DELE MAN.

According to John Corrigan, the
Wash ngton correspondent of the At
lanta Constitution, Judge Whipple is
scheduled as the successor Of the late
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07

o'clock, and relatis
to arrive Thursdi
funeral will be n
residence at Blany
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-06-29

Charles Campbell is visiting at the
home of his niece, Mrs l.. Reming-
ton, at Eau Claire.
Get out into the world; the new
days are waiting for you-but don't
go unprepared. A commercial train
ing will put armor on you to fight
LIES battles, and the Mankato Com
mercial College should be your re-
cruiting station. Send for our cat
alog.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-06-29
COMING EVENTS

July TRAP Shoot, benefit of Red
Cross.
July Cavalry dances at both
True's and Martins halls.
July Picnic at st. Mary's church
grounds.
July Z, 8, 9, 10, IL, 12-Ladysmith
Chautauqua.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-06-29
NOTICE

My wife having left my bed and
board, I will not be responsible for
any bills incurred by her.
Hips CHARLES BARTOS.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-06-29
LADYSMITH MARKET
Corrected Weekly

Butter -. -. -. -. -. SO
Eggs -. -. -. -. -. 81
Poultry, live, lib. -. -. Is
Veal, dressed, lib. -. 80. ;. II
Hogs, dressed, lib. -. -. .16
Hay, baled, medium -. -. 24.OO
Potatoes, blu. -. -. -. :. $50
Oats, blu. -. -. -. -. 100
Corn, cwt. 49,. 49,. 49,. -. $50
Corn, cwt. -. -. -. -. $50
Flour, Dbl. -. 49,. -. -. 14.4O
Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-26
THE DIVORCE MIDDLEMAN.

The mlddleman isn't confined to ordinary costof-lv- ing activities. According writer in the New Repub-
 c middlemen the prolific of national divorce evil They the divorce lawyers. Though original troube-makers they held responsible they often drive esanged couples hopelessly apart when they might bring them together.
 Husband and wife quarrel. Husband consults law yer wife consults another lawyer. Each attorney work satisfy his client and good fee. "The more bitter strife the ample the profit" The client says he or she wants divorce, wherefore the lawyer proceeds obtain it. must be made sufficient must be shown So petitions preg- nant with charges and counter-charges prepared Trfes light air magnifed to give the added seriousness To the divorce and the ice, the lawyer complies debit account which often works serious and irreparable destruction"
 The cases are prepared the parties appear in court the bitter charges and counercharges presented whatever scandal there may be dragged into the light and the passes judgment not human problem involving weak and erring morals but abstract points of law.
 "Too often the judge is merely highly dgnifed in technical game" If the lawyer has done his work we'll the divorce is granted and two partners who in most smigh have been reconciled forever with destruction of family life.
 In Cleveland there was established years ago concilation handle civil dsagreements, ncud ing domestic troubles, in informal way. Chicago fol lowed later with specific "court of domestic relations Both institutions have been of great benefit in combat ting this evil Husband and wife appear before judge who there weigh technical arguments but to
  counts makes allowances for human raltes. He tries to eliminate the cause of disagreement In surprising proportion of cases he is successful.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-26
THE EGG KING WINS.

James E. WetZ of Chicago attained fame a few weeks by announcing that he had conered most of the wis ble storage egg supply and expected clean up mill ion dollars To all outbursts of popular indignation he his cigar toward his left eye and asked What you going to do about it?
 tors by the federal department of justice but nothing happened, except temporary and ineffective boycott of eggs. Apparently he within the law could ply his genial trade immune from prosecution.
 We'll King" Wetz has just announced that, having sold his eggs, he's going with his family for the rest of the winter He courteously conveys his to the Chicago aldermen and Housewives League :o- gether with other officials organizations that tried to force down the price by boycotting eggs.
 They made folks think it sign of aristocracy eat eggs he "Everybody wanted be arstocrac Everybody ate eggs. Demand jumped. I made s1,OOO- 900. I ought to allow a generous commission the originators of the boycott"
 It's well, perhaps. that somebody should see little humor in the tragic situation enables spectators to make fortunes ny evying tribute peoples And long the public stands the prac- tices and laws that permit such outrage public serves to be treated the butt the joke Wez, laughing at the rest of is still his rights
Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-26
WHEN FRENCH FAILS.

We used be told that French the most perfect of languages, the tongue in which very shade oi thought emotion could be expressed with the utmost clearness and precision, Because of this perfection French the chosen medium for diplomatic docu- ments.
 Recent comment tends to shatter this ideal. When President Wilson's asking the belgerents to state their war-objects dispatched, there from Lon mOurnful laments the difficulty of translang certain parts Of into French One vital passage, that in which the president the of the sides being identical according the statements of their spokesmen, gave especial trouble. Ii said that it couldn't be turned into French without making the president declare that in his judgment the aims of the sides actually identical That counts for much of the French indignation
 British writer calls attention to another recent in stance in point When Mir. Asquh certain critical occasion, expressa1 his opinion by the contentious phrase, "Wait and sec" the French translators had dreadful time with it. The best they could do turn this fine clear English sentence of three sylables into "Attendex ct qui arrivera," which might be turned back Wait patiently, and you will behold that which will arrive"
 English is pretty good language after all.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-26
Friday Morning, January 26, 1917.
WORK FOR CONGRESS.

The present congressional session is half over, but there is little evidence that has done half its work The Wall Street peace leak" investigation seems have paralyzed its energies and kept it from more important duties. With little than month left the president right urging the lawmakers to get busy.
 essential all the appropriation bills They will be passed But they ought be handled with particular and discrimination instead of be- ing thrown together and jammed through hastily on the last day This is time to waste money by mis- taken porcine appropriations.
 The railroad bls too, highly important In en- acting the Adamson eghthour bill last session, congress either far not far enough If that is stand, there should be such complementary measures the president has asked for particularly law preventing the calling of strikes lockouts with due notice and public investigation.
 Attention, too is demanded by the water, power and public land leasing bills The development of ural has long been held up by delay working proper legislation along these lines And there numerous other matters that congress can profaby occupy itself with every working day up the expiration of the session of March f.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-26
would be a violation of the law.

would be a violation of the law.
 ,. In all cases where the liquor is simply in possession of the holder, and no evidence of sale or transportation. for the protection of yourself and your office I would say the wisest course for you to pursue would be to give he persons having liquor the benefit of the doubt and take no action, eX- ,ept in suspicious cases to be vigliant for violation of the law. In the last art of question No. :. I presume you .efer to liquor in your possession. mich has boel returned c9 thc owner y order of the Court In that case my removal of same would be a vio, ation of the law, whether from the ounty jail or any other place.
 6. This goes back to the question Jf interstate shipments, and the an wer must depend, to great extent, lpon the circumstances surrounding ach shipment. It would be impOssi- jle to lay down an iron clad rule for your government in all cases where .iquor may be claimed to be in transit rom one state to another. It is my opinion that intoxicating liquors, shich are shipped from some other tate and are in transit to another tate, through the State of Arizona. ioes not come within the Prohibition Amendment, So long as the liquor re- hains in the original package and is n continuous transit. Continuous tran sit, in my opinion, does not mean that he liquor must be moving at all times Jut so long as it remains absolutely n the hands of the transportation company, or a common carrier, and 10 effort is made to transfer 1t within lhis state, it remains under the pro ection of interstate commerce. The shipment must be bona fide to come within this protection, and shipments made in an unusual and expensive manner should bc looked upon with suspicion, for instance, if person ;hould have liquor in an automobile coming from New Mexico through ,hould claim that he was transporting this county, and, upon being stopped, t to the State of California. or even nto the Republic of Mexico at Douglas or Naco, in my opinion. 1t would be your duty to arrest him and cave it to the court and a jury to say whether his claim was in good .aith. and he was entitled to the pIc lection of the federal law. as 1t is not reasonable that any person would transfer a shipment or liquor from a railroad running to the same point of delivers. into an automobile to he transported at greater cost, loss of time and inconvenience.
 Very respectfully,
 JOHN r. ROSS,
 County Attorney.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-26
SCIENTISTS AND RELIGION.
good language after all.

Dr. James Henry Leuba, professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr has been investigating the religious faith of American scientists. He 1000 men of science, historians scciogists and psychologists set of ques- tions concerning the existence of God who answers prayer and the personal immortality individual 
 The results not fattering to the faith of this generation represented in its intellectual leaders. The majority replies lack of belief in these two great religious principles And general the more scientist the less faith he professed The 1000 men were divided into two groups 400 greater men" and 600 'lesser men" Of the former less than one-hird believe in a personal God and little than onethird in personal immortality Of the lesser men" 4S per cent believe in personal God and about 8 per cent in personal immortality.
 Prof Lcuba regards this proof of the widespread rejection of the two fundamental dogmas of Christi any" and seems to believe that it threatens the doom of the Christian church. With the greater diffusion of knowledge he intimates the general public will agree with the scientists
 It doesn't ecassarily follow, however. Scientists themselves probably less lacking in faith today than they a decade or two The materialism which the scientific world plunged by the work Darwin Huxley and their co-workers is giving place to a spiritual outlook. And the people in general who never really lost their old faith feel this spr itEa revival more than the scientists do.
 Scientists anyhow, cannot be taken as typical. They authorities their lines but religion is in their line. And the fact that scientifically trained mind may not perceive religious truth is argument against the truth Their unbelief may merely indicate the atrophy of their spiritual natures. An ignorant laborcr may know more about religion than Huxley or d Nucnserberg