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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22
TO PROBE THE HEAVY
PURCHASES OF COAL
Murphy To Learn How Extensive
Storage Has Become. May 5reaL
Leasec

New York, July 19.-Heavy pur-
chases of coal by apartment house
owners today resulted in an investi-
cation being instituted by John j.
Murphy. city commissioner of tene
ments, to ascertain how extensive ex
terror storage had become. Commits
sioner Murphy said that no more coal
than is necessary to supply a building
shall be permitted to be stored out
doors.
In cases where owners could not
maintain stated temperatures of their
houses, courts have decided that oc-
cupants may break leases. This rul
ing is cited as one of the causes for
outdoor storage in addition to fear
of high prices.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22

must our schools be at work creating
a spirit of preparedness in our boys
who remain at home to prevent mental
cripples in our own homes and among
our own people. There will follow at
the close of the worlds war the neces-
sity of a stronger young manhood, a
better educated class of young men
in every department of life work,
than the world has ever needed in all
its history. Then let us see to it that
our young people, the boys more es.
pecially, are prepared for the great
crisis that will surely come.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22
GET YOUR CANS WHILE
THEY ARE HERE READY

Those cans that came here at
wholesale factory cost to be used by
Crisp county people are going fast
and the whole car will soon be con-
sumed. If there are people who still
need the cans and have been slow to
get them, they should be moving.
The Exchange Bank, the American
National Bank and Watt & Holmes
Hardware company have Joined in
putting these cans out without profit
They are here for anybody who will
make use of them. Please do not let
it be said that can was left over.
This would make it hard to get next
years supply.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22
7o,64o GERMAN CASUALTIES.

London, July 20.-The German cas-
ualties reported in the German off
cial lists during June, but not as hav
ing occurred in June, are given out
by the War office here as follows:
KILLED and died of wounds, 2S,S19.
Died of sickness 3,215. Prisoners and
missing, 1906; wounded 95,906
The totals Of the German official
lists since the war began are as fol
lows.
Killed or died of wounds, 1,023,S00
died of sickness, 1890; prisoners an(
missing 519,966. Wounded, 2,826,5S
The naval and colonial casualties
are not included.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22

to the source Of motor trouble and
have the knowledge, skill, equipment
and facilities to give swift, sure and
satisfactory results. Our method of
auto repairing not only insures a quick
job, well done. but the expert use of
the most modern machinery and de-
vices, saves time and labor for us, ana
money for you.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22
ALBANY MAN STARTS
ALLIGATOR INCUBATOR

Albany, Ga, July 19.-Dr w. L..
Davis has % alligator eggs in a nest
in his back yard and is trying to hatch
them out. A surveying party found
the eggs in a nest near the Baker
county line. There were in all, but
one had ben broken and another was
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22
DR.. ]. N. Dorminy left Monday for

DR.. J. N Dorminy left Monday for
Atlanta where he will stay a week.
Mrs. Steel of North Carolina, and
Mrs. .Forehand of Lilly, spent Tues
day with their brother, Mr.. A. E. Wal
ton.
Mrs. Bernard Greene of Triton spent
Sunday with her brother, DR.. ]. N.
Dorminy
Miss Lucille Dorminy is visiting rel
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22
SEVILLE NEWS

Rem Lambert filled his regular ap-
pointment here last Sunday.
Several from here attended services
at Pleasant View this week.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22

81 Breeding ewes in active demand
and selling from $12 to $14, owing to
weight and quality.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22

atives near Hawkinsville this week.
Miss Sallie Nixon is spending few
days with her parents at Fitzgerald.
Mr.. Walter Shiery and Miss Mamie
White were married Thursday at
Pleasant View. Their many friends
wish them happy and prosperous
married life.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22

bronken open. There was a small alli-
gator inside.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-22

The only good fly is the dead one.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
BAD AND GOOD NEWS FROM
RUSSIA.

During part Of the past week con-
ditions in Russia seemed about as bad
as bad could be. Certain divisions of
the Russian army were refusing to
obey the1orders of their chief officers
and insisted upon retreating without
firing shot.
And affairs in Petrograd were about
as demoralizing as they were at the
Russian southwestern front The
constitutional democrats, who had
steadily refused to participate in the
Kerensky government were making
all kinds of trouble, and the outlook
became so dark that Kerensky re-
signed. His resignation brought all
parties face to face with the chaotic
and appalling conditions Of the coun-
try, and they all united in request
for Kerensky to withdraw his resig-
nation and form cabinet consisting
of representatives from each party,
the constitutional democrats included.
This he did, and from all accounts
the getting together of the political
forces of the country has produced a
magical effect. There will be no more
retreating of Russian armies, except
at the end of big fight. Russia is
again facing her enemies.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
CONSIDER GERMANY.

(FrOm the Chicago Herald)
Consider Germany. Nation after
nation, literally, from CHINA to Peru,
declares against her, till the stoutest-
minded Teuton must admit some
wonderment concerning the justice of
his cause. Her commerce is gone,
her colonies are gone, her youth is
gone, hardly a civilian in her Dor
ders but knows the steady grippe of
hunger, hunger that wears down
the body and lessons the efficiency
of the mind. She knows she must
lose in the end; she knows that ev-
en- if the kaiser's God existed and de-
creed a Hohenzollern victory it would
be Prussian defeat, for her gener-
ations have almost ceased to exist.
Yet she fights on.
And we? We have not yet begun
to fight. We have hardly earned the
right, save by the sincere idealism of
our cause, to indulge ourselves in a
single moment of depression. The
troubles that hamper this nation to-
day are as insignificant as a kinked
hose in a fifty -million-dollor fire
Straighten it out and 60 on! The
time may come when we may have
to call on our reserves or sacrifice.
Not yet!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
THE PUBLIC AND THE COAL
RARONS.

It looks very much as though the
owners of the country's coal mines
had entered into conspiracy to rob
the public by charging extortionate
prices for coal at their mines. The
coal mine owners are old offenders,
but never as great offenders as they
are this year. They are now charging
about three times as much for coal
at the mines as they did year ago.
The increased cost of mining is but
small fraction of their increase in
the price.
These coal men had better beware.
They can not justify their conduct at
the bar of public opinion, or the bar
of court of justice.
Coal is more than public utility,
it is a public necessity. Even more,
it is universal necessity. The COM
mercial and transportation life of the
country, as well as its home life, is
dependent upon coal, and it is not right
to longer permit its price to be fixed
by the greed of coal operators.
At a time like this the states, as
well as the Federal government, have
the power to protect the industries and
homes of the country from the unjust
exactions of pack of coal operators.
1t is high time for the public to take
a hand in the ccal business.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
SENATOR BORAH'S UNANSWER-
ABLE ARGUMENT.

In recent senatorial debate, rep
resentatives of the liquor interests
took the position that the government
could not dispense with the $450,O00,-
900 of revenue now derived from the
LIQUOR traffic, nor take the chance of
provoking labor strikes by the passage
of prohibition law.
Senator Borah resented this impu-
tation upon labor in smashing and
unanswerable argument. He said in
part:
"Now, in the name of humanity, you
will leave the laboring men their
drink in order that you may more
successfully take from the wife and
children a little more in the way of
taxes, that you may drive them a lit
tie nearer the edge Of want, that you
may handicap them a little more in
their effort to get clothes and an edu-
cation. You would pull $450,OO0,OOO
out of labor, out OF the scant and
meager home of labor that you may
be more merciful with the excess
profits of war. 1t is not only cold
and brutal policy, but it is a short
sighted and futile policy. 1t under
mines and impoverishes and finally
destroys that force with which we
must ultimately win this war and
maintain our supremacy as a nation.
It undermines and destroys that
force which must win war in our in
dustrial conflict, which, as l have said,
is to follow this war just so sure as
one hour succeeds another. But more
than that, the whole thing is unfound-
ed and untrue. Labor will not strike
for drink, labor and laboring men are
not the trouble in this conflict. 1t is
greed-the cold, constituencies greed
that stands in the way, nothing else,
nothing more, nothing less
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Buried Alive in Tree.

AS some workmen were telling tim
Der in Scotland, they discovered in the
center of one of the trees a cavity in
which were the remains Of a cat. The
skeleton was entire, and some hair Of
sandy color yet remained on the
skin. 1t is conjectured that the ami
NAL, having entered hollow part Of
the tree, was unable to extricate itself,
and the wood in process Of years had
grown around it.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08

Ever since the war commenced
France has born the principal exer-
ton of the Central Powers. For more
than 100 days the French rolled back
the German legions at Verdun. At
the present time the battle line in
France and Belgium is 462 miles long.
OF that line the Belgians hold II miles,
the English Sc miles and the French
1853 miles. France stands like an an
vii while the blows of stalwart men
fall fierce and fast. France has won
the admiration of Christendom, as we'll
as her right to nationality, by the
heroism she has displayed in resisting
the advance of the invaders. The
American soldier can add new glory
to his country by helping the heroic
defenders of France.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
SWEEPING CHANGES In GERMAN
GARNET,

Announcement was made in Berlin
last Monday that four Imperial Ger
man secretaries of state, and five
members of the Prussian ministry
had resigned their portfolios. For
eign Secretary Zimmerman, the Mex
lean plotter, is replaced by DR..
Kuehlman, a man said to be opposed
to ruthless submarine warfare.
The comments of the German press
do not disclose the reasons for these
designations, but it's general trend is
anything but hopeful.
The kaiser may have concluded
that it was time to throw overheard
the men who had done SO much to
turn the hands of civilized men
against him. In any event this
sweeping change indicates that the
kaiser was dissatisfied with large
group of his intimate advisers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Corn Needs Little Cultivation.

In Illinois farmers found that once
the corn roots were fully established
in the soil, their attraction for the
moisture was so great that very little
moisture escaped. The only cultivation
they found valuable was to keep down
the weeds, which used up the moisture.
Three-fourths of the corn roots do not
60 deep, but establish themselves in
the cultivated soil, and the less they
are disturbed at their meals the better
crop results are attained.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Acieral.

Acieral is the name given to newly
discovered metal alloy prepared by
French inventor. It contains 80 or
more per cent of aluminium. 1t has
the advantages Of strength, lightness
and freedom from corrosion. 1t is be-
ing used for military helmets, and Is
said to be adapted to airplane and en-
CINE construction. Properly tempered
acieral has g. tensile strength of TO-
600 pounds to the square inch.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
TREASON AND ITS PUNISHMENT.

Section 1, of the Criminal Code of
the United States, provides:
aWhoever, owing allegiance to
the United States, levies war
against them or adheres to their
enemies, giving them aid and com
fort within the United States or
elsewhere, is guilty Of treason"
The punishment for violation Of
the above quoted section may be death,
or at the discretion of the court, i'm
prisonment for not less than five
years and fine of lot less than $1O,-
900.
A citizen of the United States who
gives aid and comfort within the
the United States or. elsewhere, to this
countrys enemies is guilty of treason,
the highest crime known to the law.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08

I wish to announce to the public
that after the first of June our COM
pound vapor baths at our bath parlors
near the library, will be one dollar
straight; a spray bath without mas
sage, fifty cents; a facial towel treat
ment, fifty cents, az usual; and a
shampoo in connection with a vapor
bath will be one dollar and twenty-five
cents.
also have fine line Of toilet arti-
cles, creams, face powders, depilator-
les, hair preparations and other arti-
cles which will be glad to show you
If you will kindly call and Investigate
Ida M. ELDER,
20wkstf 300 Franklin St. Manchester,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08

Ruth's father gave her some pen
MES for Sunday school and she de-
parted with neighbours little son,
Harry, who was likewise prepared. Up
on her return she said, Father, Just
think; Harry didn't put his pennies In
Sunday school. He put them in the
slot machine. but the gum never came
out, 50 you see, father, he just couldn't
fool God. could hep
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Wasted Time.

We don't miss the little here and the
little there. Yet in year the amount
Of time wasted is enormous. Learn
ing that he was always called to din
ner several minutes before the dinner
was really ready to eat certain man
started and wrote book in the spare
minutes between the call and the &C.
tual dinner time. It only shows how
we waste time. If you want to be
among earth's benefactors you will
begin now to conserve your time and
use it to profit.-Exchange.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
The Salad KIM.

That men may attain fame and last
ing memory through curious occupa-
lions is evidenced by the fact that n
young French nobleman named Henri
D'Aldignac, who fled from the French
revolution to London, is known to this
day as "The Salad King" He made his
living by dressing salads in the French
and Italian ways-then unknown in
England-and soon obtained great To-
cal fame and his title.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Land Built by Rivers.

The biologists say that the Gulf OF
Mexico once extended northward to
the mouth Of the Ohio, and that all the
land between that point and New Or
leans has been built up by the earth
washfngs brought down the river.
Even now, the stream carries on the
average something like 4OO,OOO,OOO
tons every year. From the Missouri
alone comes 12O tons every second, or
more than 100000 cubic yards ev'
cry day.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Edison Invented Phonouraph

Thomas A. Edison is universally
conceded to be the inventor Of the pho
nograph. The British Encyclopedia
mentions it as one of his many inven-
lions. His patent was issued in 1877
The vibrations of sound had been re-
corded before, but Edison was the first
not only to record but reproduce
sound.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Advertising Pays.

A woman Of uncertain age required
the services of a page-boy, and insert
ed In the local paper an advertisement
headed: youth wanted" One Of her
friends. with little humor and less
taste, sent her bottle of celebrated
wrinkle-remover, a pot Of fairy bloom,
q set of false teeth, and flaxen wig !!
London Tit-BitS.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Must Guard AGAINST Echo.

The possibilities of an echo have to
be taken into account by the archi-
tects and builders of all public build
ings, such as theaters, halls and
churches, where persons are to speak
and must be heard by others. Unless
they are very careful the walls and
ceilings may be arranged so that
when anyone sings or speaks in the
room there is such an echo that it
fnterferes with the music or speak
ing
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Preparinu for a BID Doq.

A nouveau richie who was noted for
his misuse of the kings English Is
quoted by an exchange as dilating on
the cost of the kennels for his new
country place in these words: TITS
just throwing money into the fire. We
haven't an animal on the place worth
So; but the way those architects are
fitting up those COMPOUNDED kennels
anyone would think that they expected
them to be occupied by the Dog OF
Venice himself !"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
oHoln Of Pottery,

Pottery probably first came into
service as a protection to the vessels
made Of gourds, shells, basket work of
reeds. young branches and other ma
terials, and finally became the vessel
itself because Of its serviceable quail
ties, instead Of the Trailer, earlier
type.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
New Kind Of Muellaoe.

Mucilage which can be used in both
stick and book form, and Of which only
the quantity desired at any particular
time can be utilized, has been invent
ed. the purpose being to guard the loss
consequent upon the drying Of liquid
mucilage.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
GaIerie des Assiettes.

One of the important apartments at
the palace of Fontainebleau, In France,
is called the Galerie des Assiettes, for
the reason that its decoration consists
Of vertical rows Of plates, set in the
paneling Of the walls. These plates
are very valuable, are made Of porce-
lain, and upon them are painted
scenes and views of many royal resi-
dences. The plates were placed there
by the order of Louis Philippe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
OREGON & CALIFORNIA RAILROAD

OREGON & CALIFORNIA RAILROAD
COMPANY GRANT LANDS. Legal
fight over land at last ended. Title
revested in United States. Land, by
act of congress, ordered to be opened
under homestead laws for settlement
and sale. Two million three hundred
thousand acres. Containing some of
the best timber and agricultural lands
left in the United States. Large copy
righted map showing land by town
ships and sections, laws covering
same and description of soil, climate,
rainfall, elevations, temperature ETC..
Postpaid One dollar.-Grants Lands
Locating Company, Portland, Ore
gon. SO-Aug.A
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
What Was His Nationality?

When a building laborer in New
York was injured, the policeman who
went with the ambulance reported:
TITS nothing; man lest his balance
and fell over Limerick limousine"
The lieutenant at the station wondered
all the afternoon, until the policeman
came In off his post and explained that
the man fell over a wheelbarrow. May
be you can guess the policeman's an
cestry.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
THE UNITED STATES SENATE FA-
VORS NATIONAL PROHIBITION.

Last Wednesday, by an overwhelm-
ing vote of IS to 20, the United States
senate passed resolution for the
submission to the states of a prohib-
ition amendment to the federal consti-
tuition. What a change a few years
have wrought? Only few years ago
the prohibitionists were lifting their
hats and bending the suppliant hinges
of their knees to the liquor men
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Cotton 10 Ancient.

Just who discovered cotton Is not
known. The early records are so in
complete that no individual can be
credited with the discovery Of the val
ue Of this wonderful plant. Long be-
fore Caesars time, among the Hindoos,
they had law that If you stole piece
Of cotton you were fined three times
Its value. Most Of the early nations
were familiar with cotton-the early
Egyptians, Chinese and other ancient
people used 1t and valued 1t.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Jews Lived Longest In Babylon.

Jews Lived Longest in Babylon.
BY far the largest part Of Jewish
history, tradition, literature, ETC., Is
not Palestinian but Babylonian. In
Babylon lived, for the longest time,
the greatest number Of Jews together.
There their principal religious works
were written, especially the Talmud.
which is a higher authority with the
Jews than the Bible.