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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
WEEvILS ATE ALL
THIS MANS COTTON
ANOTHER KIND WEEViL LEARN
ING BAD HABITS OF THE MEX
ICAN BOIL WEEViL.

A cOlored tenant on one Of Mrs.
providers plantations just out of town
gathered and brought in for eX2mina-
ton a bottle of weeyils Friday after
noon that have destroyed twenty acres
of cotton completely. Tie ground has
been worked all over and is now be-
ing planted in corn and velvet beans.
The tenant said in very small
area, not much larger than a persaLS5
hand, six to a dozen OF these weevil
could be picked from the soil. So
many of the insects filed the field that
it was hardly possible to detect what
bad been planted there. The cotton
vas given time to get up and almost
large enough to be worked before it
was attacked.
The insect is not the boil weevil
and the attack on the cotton was more
than likely local.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29

eve are mobolized on the coast
.o.dv to embark at a moments notlce
for France to fight the Germans lie
wrote. you ought to be proud OF me
now that am offering my service ana
nv life to fight beneath the stars anu
stripes for my country's cause
His brother fingered the letter.
turning if over and over as he thought
+bor he read the concluding lines
oeain and again. Those words were
like an electrical thrill. More than
reading the account of that gallant
Young Texan who dashed across the
v;n,v ridge with the French army with
tho stars and stripes dashed to his bay
one+ and fell a victim terribly wound
cd TO Teuton's bullet, they awoke
bis emotions. They were his broth
ORG words. They were the modest
most eloquent words he had ever
heard or read, he thought then. In
that moment he forgave his brother
every wronfj that he had ever done
For twelve years the words at their
last parting had stuck in his memory
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
CONE TO FIGHT FOR OLDGLORY;
ERRING BROTHER WRITES HOME

81 am ashamed Of you" he told his
brother then. Some day l may re-
+urn home a true, honest, upright
man" his brother replied.
It was in a Georgia town that these
brothers spent their boyhood days and
grew to young manhood. One was al
ways an upright, honorable young
man, but the other took the opposite
course and went as far as he could
to iail., He led a checkered life until
then and there were not many offens-
es in the category of crime that he
had not done His brother, several
years his senior, secured his release
from Jail, and told him he would have
to ioin the army, where he would learn
discipline and the duties of citizenship
and make a man of himseSf.
And it was a Cordele man who re-
ceived a letter several days ago from
his brother at Fort Hamilton. A Uni
ted States soldier in Company en-,
22nd New York Infantry.
81 am proud of you" the Cordele
man wrote his soldier brother among
other things.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
PROSPECTS GOOD
FOR BRASS Band
LIST or MEMBERS OF NEW OR
cANlzATIoN ~ cPoWiNG-iN-
CLUDES SOME OF BEST MUSl-
cIANs-WiLL BE GREAT AID TO
HOME GUARD.

The prospects for the organization
of Cordele's new brass band, TO be
identified with the home guard during
the life of this company, is looming
bright. G. D. Hartshorn, who is pro-
noting the movement, appeared be-
fore the home guard at its meeting
Friday night to state his plans and
secure their cooperation. He secured
tine names of several members OF the
home guard TO assist in the band,
While there are q number Of good
musicians who have been associated
with brass bands before, experience
in a band or in playing an instrument
is not REQUIRED. What MIR. Hartshorn
wants to do is to secure men for the
hand who will be interested in learn
ing and who will stick with the Or
eani7ation permanently. The band
will be connected with the home guard
as long as the home guard is in eXis-
lance, but Mr.. Hartshorn hopes to
make the band a permanent organlza-
ton for Cordele for all time. Most of
the musicians have their own instru-
ments and the names Of these have
already been enrolled as members OF
the band.
Prospective applicants FOR member
ship in the band are asked to leave
their names with Mr.. Hartshorn or at
The Dispatch office.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
FUNDS FOR FAIR
GROW larger
WITH ALL OF THE COMMITTEE
LISTS REPORTED GAIN OF $685.
is SHOWN OVER THE LAST RE-
PoRT-TOTAL NOW $1,82G.

With all four members of the
fair subscription committee reported
for publication there is a total of ST.
82S subscribed. Since the report made
in Wednesdays issue of the Dispatch
1855 has been. reported.
In the last list, as published in the
Dispatch, the Suwanee Hotel subscrip-
ton appeared as IS. 1t should have
been $50. Following are the new
subscriptions;
Total of subscription list previously
published, 1913; Hutchinson Lumber
& Supply Co. $25; A. Wells Farm SIS;
Read Phosphate Co., $50; American
National Bank, by J. w. Cannon, cash
Ter. $50; Citizens Bank $685. Church
we'll Bros, 500; Cash Drug Store $25;
Ccrdele Motor Co., s25; WattHolmes
Hardware Co., $50; George Miller $40;
Red Cross Drug Store $40; B GrabloW-
F. Sheppard & Bro, SIS; j. H. Shlpp
SO; c. B. Bowen $40; ]. M. Wither-
ington IS; NJ. Taylor IS; Parlor Mar
ket by E. P. Carr, So; Georgia Phar'
macy IS; Feagle-Taylor Furniture Co..
s25: M. Wakefield SIS; L. j. Roobln
s25: D. Ed Kennedy Co., $25; Cordele
Leather Co., S.; J. T. Westbrook &
Bro, $25; Williams Drug Co., $40;
Lime-Cola Bottling Co., $25; Mcclellan
Stores Co., $40; Nesbitt's Dairy $25;
Fl. w. Offenburg IS; Cordele Com
press $40; Cordele Sash Door and Lum
her Co., S25; Frank Teuber $40; Palm
er-Jones Co., $25; Crisp Co., Lumber
Co.. S25; Cordele Marble Works $40;
pridgen Bros. Co., $685.. Frank E. VIII
liams s25; w. H Cunningham $40;
Total S1,S2S.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
M0ONSHlNERS
CAUGHT BY
SLE:UTHS
POLICE CAPTURE NEGRO WITH
SACK FULL OF "STUMP JUICE"
FRESH FROM DiSTILLERY---
TWO NEGROES LODGED IN
COUNTY JAIL.

When officers Turk and Estes Of
he local police force caught Jim
Rechmore, a negro, early Saturday
morning in the negro section of the
City, with sack slung over his shoul.
der containing several quarts CT
Stump juice" they got first-hand in
formation of q moonshine distillery be-
ing operated on the farm of DR.. A. B.
McRae, several miles from the city.
Rockmore, caught with the PROOF
Of the guilt on his person, made
complete confession and implicated
Andrew Pope, another negro. The two
negroes had been distilling corn
liquor for some time in an old out
house Oh the McRae farm. A wash
rot was used for distilling purposes.
The police suspected Rockmora
when they met him in the negro sec
ticn about 80 o'clock Saturday morn
Ais. ne dClCu ouSpIClOAoiy anu IiAS--
TO avoid them. The crocus sack slung
over his shoulder increased the off
GERS suspicious. The captured liquor
was still warm from the still.
After his confession Rockmore was
taken in custody and in company with
Sheriff John Ward, Chief of Police
Sheppard and officer Turk he was ia
ken to the McRae farm to point out the
place of his illegal operations The
officers found barrel of corn and
syrup mash and the distilling appara-
JUS of the Smoke house" type in
working order They destroyed the
still aud mash and retained with
Rochmore Later they captured Pope
and both prisoners were lodged in the
county Jail They. will probably be
turned over to the federal authorities.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
FiDDtERS MADE A
Splendid HIT
PROGRAM MADE UP OF BACK-IN-
THE-COUNTRY "BREAk-DOWN"
FlDDLiNG THAT WAS WORTH
WHILE.

e. M. Watson won first prize Thurs
gay night at the fiddlers' convention,
j. r. Watson, second, and j. NJ. Hud-
son, third. And incidentally a pro-
gram of rare interest and enjoyment
was rendered. A packed house attend
ed and manifested lively interest in
each event. 1t was one of the Invest
occasions witnessed at the Opera
House III many day.
Joe W. Graham of Unadilla, man
past seventy years in age, vetefan
and fiddler of the old days, won the
audience completely with his dancing,
for it was a faithful, nimble reproduc-
ticn and just as good, the audience
thought, as that of this expert before
Lis "dancin' days" were over. Although
he was slightly i'll, he proved a great
entertainer
John R. Bridges, formerly of Cor
dele, now of Ashburn, is real fid-
der. And so is j. D. H. Evers of this
city. Wesley Watson and his boys
are also good ones and can beat the
world reproducing the real "back in
the country breakdown" fiddler's mu-
sic. There were others, among them
being Master Walters, little boy who
is on the way far enough to brave such
q crowd and play for them. a purse
was made up for him as a mark of APP
probation of his efforts. Prof. Poole's
playing and dancing also won the
audience, for it was good.
Among those taking part in the pro-
gram not already mentioned were
Paul and Lamb Woodward, S. C. Hen
dersCn, ]. r. and Allen Watson.
The veterans have written the fol-
lowing card
The Fiddlers Convention met here
under auspices of the U. II. c. and
was quite a success. The fiddlers Of
the county came in and Joined in and
entertained the large crowd most ad-
mirably. There were many fiddlers
present and a jolly good time was had
and the old U. c. V. feel very grateful
for the liberal patronage of the good
people of Cordele and Crisp county,
and from our hearts we les them for
all the considerations we received.
D. ARNETT, Commander.
w. II. MALONE, Adjutant.
c. o. PERRY, Secty, Treas
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
Arab SCHOOL Wins
BOTH gold MEDALS
FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS
THIS SCHOOL HAS TAKEN HON.
ORS IN CONTESTS IN ELOCU-
TON AND oRATORY OF COUNTY
SCHOOLS.

For the second consecutive year
the Arab school captured both NED
ais in the contest in elocution and ora
tory Saturday morning, between tho
schools Of Crisp county, the events be-
ing held at the school auditorium.
Miss Ruth Mikel, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. j. Mikel, was awarded
the medal for the best reading. Her
subject was "A Big Mistake" Carnes
Harvard, son Of DR. and Mrs. " O..
Harvard was awarded the medal for
the best defamation. His subject was
Swallowing a Live Oyster"
The Judges, Prof. A. L. Brewer, Miss
Frances CarswelI and Miss Lilliar
Moore, teachers in the public schools,
found difficulty in reaching their de-
cisions because of the excellence Of
all participants in the contests. The
names Of the contestants or the
schools represented were not given
much credit on the ability in training
ed the winners by number.
There was a large audience in at
tendance upon the occasion, compos
ing pupils, teachers, patrons and
friends Of the various schools repre-
scented, and large number of people
from the city were present.
The winning of The medals for the
second time by the Arab schools is
highly mplimentary of the talent
available in this school. and reflects
much credit on the ability in training
the contestants of Miss Kathleen Pate
for the past two years in charge Of the
music and elocution departments of
the Arab school.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
GARDENERS WANT
TO help NEIGHBORS
LOCAL RESIDENTS PLAN GARDEN
ING CAMPAIGN WORTHY OF
CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.

Here is a new gardening proposition
and a good one. w. o. Roberts, w. A.
yanGevender, c. T. FOX and w. II.
Chapman, neighbors down in the east
ern END of Twelfth avenue have excep-
ticnally fine garden spots. They nave
heard the call for more food stuffs and
are at work. Each Of them will have
far more food products in vegetables,
peas, corn, beans, potatoes than they
can use for their own families.
But listen! They are not trying
to give it away. 1t is not ready yss-
But these four enterprisnig gardeners
and business men want the communl-
t. to devote at least month to put
ting in a garden for every family
They have asked Demonstration Agent
J. A. Johnson TO outline for the sim
plest and best garden crop and they
want everybody to see those Plans and
find out how to proceed with the work.
They have plants galore and they
want their neighbors to have them,
not on any money making, truck grow
ing basis, but simply for the home
gardens and they are willing to divide
with those who will make an effort.
They say there are others who nave
plenty of plants who would likewise
want to help. And so the good work
might be started The plans are be-
ing worked out and the expert garden
err may have something to say about it
right Soon
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
ON WAY TO HIS HOME
VARNETT DIES ON TRAIN

On his way to his home at Ocilla
from Cordele, after being under treat
ment for a week H. F. Varnett, died
Tuesday afternoon on the train with
in a few :orlcs of his home. He was
accompanied by his wife upon leav-
ing Cordele, and she had been here
with him during his treatment.
Varnett Lad been sick for several
years and his health had been slowly
declining, until Tuesday he realized
and was informed by DR.. J. W. Elliott,
who was treating him, that he could
live but few Tours. He stated that
lie wanted to go home and be among
lis people when he died. He had
been under treatment of various ply
sicians in this and other states.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
Folders HAVE
ANIzED
IN body
AFFECTED MEETING THURSDAY
WITH FIFTEEN MEMBERS AND
ELECT OFFICERS-WiLL GIVE
ENTERTAINMENT AT CRISP
COUNTY FAIR.

Growing out OF the Old-time FIddlers
Convention held here last week, mu-
sic:ans OF Cordele have organized the
South Georgia Fiddlers Convention.
The organization was affected Thurs
day afternoon with fifteen members,
all Of them artists in their particular
line. and some Of them as capable OF
shufling off buck dance as they
are of handling a bow.
Officers elected we're as follows: l.
NJ. Hudson, president, Ccrdele; Joe
w. Graham, first vice president, Una
dilla; A. P. Woodward, second vice
president, Vienna; John r. Bridges,
third vice president, Ashburn; c. Q.
Perry, secretary and treasurer, Cor
dele
There is every favorable chance for
the organization to grow INTO one Of
the largest and strongest Ct its kind
anywhere. There is a great deal OF
material in the way of good fiddlers
in Crisp and adjoining counties, as eT-
idenced at the fiddlers convention last
week.
1t is planned for the organization
to give an entertainment during the
Crisp county fair next fall, and plans
with this in view are being promoted
new.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
PEANUT CROP
To BRE: AK
RECORD
TWENTY THOUSAND BUahEL3 o.
GEEp PEANUTS Hh&E BEEN
GOLD ~ THE COuNTY-YlELG
THIS YEAR ESTIMATED OVER
$4,000 3UGHELG.

Statistics i.,aGe up from ,ac sales
e seed .oanut1 from local wholesale
houses and oil mills OF Cordele this
year ah,4, ma more than 10000 bush
els q scoj rea.;i!s have been sold in
Crisp cc"nir This vaar.. 'Thegc Stats
ties "~a authoritative, ana the probe
bii.;y is that the sales will even rearh
higher Succs th4n these, since no re
Gprts could be obtained from other
shipping points in the county, to say
nothing CT the quantity OF seed pea
nuts purchased By farmers OF the
county that did NOT come through the
local market,
Basing these statistics on a good
average, 10000 bushels Of peanuts
should easily plant 5000 acres. The
average yield OF peanuts in this sec
ton is fifty bushels to the acre. That
makes a fetal Of 100000 bushels Of
peanuts for Crisp county's production
this year, many times over what The
production has ever been heretofore,
and it is probable that peanuts will
bring fully dollar per bushel on the
market in the fall.
Peanut growing has passed the eX-
perimental stage in Crisp county, and
is now an extensive industry. 1t is
one of the chief crops on which the
farmers are depending in order to Off
get the conditions caused by the boil
weeyil. Every farmer has planted
large acreage in peanuts, while some
have farms of one to two hundred
acres.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
M'GLkMERY HEAD
or Arab SCHOOL
SUCCESSOR TO PROF. h. w. JEH-
klNS ELECTED AT RECENT
MEETING OF TRUSTEES-MRS.
MGLAMERY ELECTED TEACH
Err OF INTERMEDIATE GRADES.

At a recent meeting of the board OF
trustees Of the Arab school, Prof. w.
T. McGlaremy, a we'll known young
educator, was elected to succeed Prof.
H. w. Jenkins, resigned. Prof. Nc
Glamery is a graduate of Young Har-
ris and has completed the Junior year
at Mercer University. He has had
two years experience as teacher.
Mrs. McGlamery, wife OF the new
principal, and also a graduate OF
Young Harris college, was elected as
teacher OF the intermediate grades.
She completed the Junior year at
WESLEYAN and holds a first grade and
high school certivcate.
Miss Mamie Belle jerks, OF Jack
son. with en- experience Of four years
SIS a teacher, two OF which was served
as principal OF a good school and VINO
holds a first-grade license, was elect
ed teacher Of the primary grades.
Az previously stated in the Dipatch,
Irof. Jenkins has accepted the primer
palship of the schools at Jenkinsburg,
IS. G. Miss Gertrude Wilson, who
taught in the intermediate department
Of the Arab schools during the past
year. was not an applicant for re-elec-
ton, and Miss Minnie Bible, who also
Taught in the schools, it is understood,
has accepted another position, Miss
Pate, the music and expression teach
err for the past two years, will not
return to Arab
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
THESE ARE The FELLOWS
WHO TROD The HOT SANDS

are: Professor w. II. Hitecheuu,
Barney Ware, Jim Key, Sidney Wells
and Willie Williams TO those with
the superfluous averdupois the sands
were hotten than hot.
Cordele was well represented at the
ceremonials, fifty or more Shriners as
we'll as other citizens being in attend
ance upon that event and the Mercer
Auburn baseball game.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
GORDON GRIFFIN, AGE II,
DIED THURSDAY MORNING

Gordon Griffin, aged IL years, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Griffin, who live
five miles east of the city, died early
Thursday morning at the family home.
The funeral services were conduct
ed from the residence Thursday after
noon at $50 o'clock and the remains
we're brought to Corde1e for interment
at sunnyside cemetery. Mr.. and Mrs.
Griffin have scores of friends through
out the county and section who con-
dole with them in their bereavement.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
DEATH LITTLE DAUGHTER
MR.. AND MRS. 2. c. CROziER

Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Gro
zier sympathize with them in their
bereavement in the death of their lit
tle 17-month old daughter, which oc-
CURED Wednesday night. Mr.. Crozier
is overseer or the H. c. Wheeler
farm, about two miles west of the
city
The funeral services and burial oc-
CURED at Shiloh Thursday afternoon.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29

There were about one hundred
"fresh meat victims at the Shriner's
pilgrimage of Alec Temple at Albany
Thursday who had occasion to call on
Allah, imploring that He might be
merciful, and there were none more
ready or willing to rest beneath the
"portals of the temple" after their
Journey across the hot sands than the
Cordele candidates. Here they
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
CARD OF THANKS.

On behalf of the Daughters OF the
Confederacy l wish to thank each and
every one who lent their assistance IN
any worm to the success of cur Memo
rial exercises.
TALLULAI r. ATKINS,
President.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29
20 STEAMERS ARRIVE IN N. y.

New York. April 27--Twenty steam
ships, runners of Germany's subma-
rine blockade. arrived at this port to
day and thus made available about
10000 tons of space for cargo.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29

A good water supply in the spring
may save an undertaker's bill in the
fall.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-29

Mrs. Charles 7, Dudley, of whose
schol at Greenwich, Conn, DR.. Frank
Crane, Ernest Thompson Seton and
other wol],k10wn persons are direc-
tors, has made an offer to the War
Department TO care for the children
of army officers who will be sent to
the front in the war with Germany
She will not only house them and teach
them, but she will give them all the
benefits of her out of dor school. the
Wabanaki.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-05-21

Saturday afternoon the Academy
suffered their first defeat of the season
at the hands of the Bulkeley Alumni
Z to 4. The playing of the home team
was very ragged while the visitors
played fast, sna.ppy baseball. With
| the exception of Stanley and Meek the
Academy acted as if their gloves were
padded with rubber. After bad first
inning Stanley pitcher better ball
for the remainder of the game and
with any kind of support might have
beat Buckley. Besides their poor ex-
hibition of fielding the local team fail
ed to hit in the pinches.
On the bases the Academy boys
showed very poor judgment, pulling
several bonehead plays.
Buckley took The lead in the open
ing game when hits by McGraw and
OIeary and Lucy and errors by Shea.
LeClaire and Bennett with Reagan's
walk gave the down river boys three
runs; LeClaire walked but was
caught off first. Parker and Stanley
both flied out to McGraw.
In the next inning McGraw was safe
on Parker's error, but was the hrst
victim of the Counihan LeClaire route
fouled out In the Academy half
Counihan walked and was hit by
Lucy's throw stealing second. The
ball rolled out to center field and
Counihan scored.
The other Academy tally came when
Lynch was safe on Benefits out at
second and scored on Meningitis hit.
Neither team scored in the third but
in the fourth OLeary crossed the plate
with the BuIkeley run as a result of
errors by LeClaire and Mcknight and
Noonan's hit. In their half the Acad-
envy succeeded in tying the score.
Counihan reached first on OTeary's
error, went to second on Meek's sac
rifice and scored on Benefits hit.
Bennett scored on a passed ball.
Bulkeley recovered her lead in the
fifth inning after two men were out.
Cremins reached first when Lynch
made a bad error and then singles by
Reagan and Noonan with O'Leary's
two dagger netted the orange and
black three runs. The Academy failed
to score.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-05-21

men. who made the best record of the
week i'll the National, stopped Mitch
ellis club and defeated it Friday and
Saturday. AleXtnder allowed the Wis
itors only four hits on Friday. but on
on Saturday it took Philadelphia II
innings to clinCh the victory. Previous
~ Chicago had taken four games from
Boston, in which the Braves made only
fifteen hits and two runs. New York
slowed up during the week and lost
first place to Chicago Tuesday. st.
Louis on Monday and Tuesday de-
feated New York. each time in ten in
nings. McGraw's men are hitting
well, but their fielding has been rath-
er loose and only Schrupp appears to
be in winning form. Brooklyn was
able to break it's losing streak at the
expense Of st. Louis and Cincinnati
moved up in the race by winning four
out of five games.
New York and Chicago set the pace
in the American organization, while
Boston met with stubborn opposition
The Yankees. who had run up a
string of five victories went into first
place Saturday when they PLAYED De-
troit to an II inning tie while Chicago
was beating Boston. Rowiands men
also went ahead of the champions and