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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
FINE CROWD FOLLOW
FARMING MOVIES
FARM DEMONSTRATION AGENT
TURNER is HIGHLY PLEASED

Farm Demonstration Agent J. M
Turner smiled today at the success OF
the good farming movie at Mount
Carmel last night. The show is. at,
tracing attention and will doubtless
have much effect on the all-cotton
farmer who thinks his only future
calling is toftry to make cotton with
the weevil in the asceRdency.
III Miss Hamilton and Mr.. farmer are
using the show to make the most OF
good farming at the various points. =
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
F. H. F1UGGINS DIES SUDDENLY
WHILE ON QUITMAN TRIP

Mr.. E. X. Markert and daughter,
Miss Francis are in Thomasville on
account Of the death of Mr., r. II.
Higgins, husband of Mr.. Markets.
sister. '4c s fl
The news reaching here was to the
effect that Mr.. Higgins dropped dead
in Quitman yesterday. His remains
we're taken to Thomasville and rela-
tives here went to attend the funeral.
Friends TO Mrs. Higgins here deeply
sympathize with her.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
DORIS AND BROWN BUY
ASHLEY j. PITTS FARM

Doris and Brown, local lawyers
and farm loan operators, yester pur'
chased the home place of Mr. Ashley
J. Pitts three miles east of Arab
This is one of the best farms in that
section Of the county and the price
was approximately $4,000.
The new owners expect to make
this part of large plantation which
they are operating on this adjacent
property
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
JUDGE COLLINS COMING
TO RESIDE IN C0RDELE

Judge j. NJ. Collins has purchased
the Fulgham residence in Northern
Heights and will come to town to re-
side in the near future. He closed a
deal with Fulgham yesterday. The
residence will be made the home
place for the Collins family.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
D. G. BROWDER NARROWLY
ESCAPED SEVERE INJURY

d. c. ,Browder escaped from a gas.
olinc engine yesterday on the farm
with hardly a shred of clothing left
on him and his injuries while slight
were inflicted so quickly that he hard
ly knew what was taking Place. He
had started to oil the engine when
his clothing became entangled in the
machinery. His escape was mar
row one. He is not severely injured
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
$4,000, 900 GIVEN TO THE
BAPTISTS BY ROCKEFELLER

New York, Sept. 24.-J0hn d. Rookie
Teller today contributed $2,OOO,OOO to
the ministers and missionary board OF
the Northern Baptist convention. No
restrictions are made as to the use
Of the principal and income, which will
be expended to take care of INDECENT
Baptist minister's of the northern
states. @
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
NOTICE

Owing to weakness resulting from
a very severe attack of influenza re-
Gently, regret that | will not be able
to open the business school in Cor
dele during September as ! promised,
| wish to thank those who have writ
ten to me applying for scholarship
and would advise that they keep i'm
touch with me for few weeks that
may let them know when | can open
the school. giSpp ALSO NJ thank ttl Rifi
business people who have written me
encouraging me to return to Cordele
TO continue my work as a CONNER
ciai teacher. / feel very kindly toward
the people Of cordefe' especially the
church people, the newspapers and the
business people. You have been very
kind to the stranger within your gates
and yours shall be an exceeding great
reward. i thank you.
MARY A. ROWDEN,
Fleetwood, Ga, September %, 1919.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
SEAB HAMILTON STILL ''2
is MAKING IMPROVEMENT

Seab NJ, Hamilton is still ,regaining
his sfrengthsahtt appears now on ths
way to full and complete recovery.
He is in much better condition now
than at any time since he was injur.
ed early in the year. Friends on all
sides are pleased at hiss advance,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

A Japanese naval officers chemi-
cal process waterproofs tough ma
tive paper SO it can be used for many
purposes usually requiring textile fab
RIGS on leather.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Mr.. R. l. Huffman is spending ten
days at Black Mountain, North Caro-
-
Clyde SmitlE3eft today for Atlanta
where he wilT=Tesnme his studies at
Emory.
Mrs G. LIZ Lffsey and little daughter
Elizabeth have returned from a visit
to Macon. -
-
MISS MARY l,arKer Las returned
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
FIRST WOMAN CLUB N AMERICA

sorosis, the first woman's club or
ganized in America, was established
in 1868 by q group of women protest
ing against the exclusion of women
as guests at q banquet rendered Char
les Dickens then visiting III New
York.
Fl E 81, 6
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
WANTED TO

WANTED TO BUY-Second hand
Chattanooga Cane mill. Write or see
" II. Scott. Rt c. CrodcIe. Ga. 9-25-3t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25
Miss Lucy Mae Todd will teach
this fall at ADKINS

&
this fall At Adkins:
Joe Lee Wilson, who has recently
undergone d successful operation OH
his eyes is expected to arrived in
Cordele the latter part of this week.
+, Mrs Frances, sNeWsome has. return
ed tother home ia Savanna after a
visit Of several days to her daugh-
ters,, Mrs, G. G, Moore and Mrs. ], @
Spires.
Abbedon Pitts returned yesterday
from trip to Chicago, Rochester
and other points in the west. He was
accompanied by his sister, Mrs. E. E.
Cox of Camilla.
Mr., and Mrs. Tom Mckenzie of
Moultrie who spent the past week
end here with Mr.. McKenzie's. par
ents, Col. and Mrs. II. c. Mckenzie,
left yesterday for Macon.
Mrs. G. W. Stewart and little sons
of st. Cloud, MINI. are guests of their
relatives, Mesdames Thorpe and Mel.
lie T. Patterson as Miss Mae Cotton,
Mrs. Stewart is pleasantly remember
ed in Cordele, where she made her
home when she taught music. Mrs.
Stewart is an accomplished musician.
Mr.. and Mrs w. F. Market and
Mr. Ed Markert left yesterday for
Thomasville in response to a message
stating the sudden death of Mr.. j.
L. Higgins of that city. Mr.. Higgins
was brother in-law of Messfs w. F.
and Ed Markert, Friends of the, fam
fy here sympathize with them in
their bereavement 80 XII
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

The project to electrify the rail-
roads of Belgium has been approved
by the minister of railways.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Miss Lucille Asbell of Cochran is
the guest of Miss Lucy Mae Todd.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Cohen and family
are spending today in Albany.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Alfred Dorman is spending several
days in Moultrie on business.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Mrs Orbie Bazemore, Misses Ere
derica Boatright Bula Bivins and
Lillian Cannon have returned from
a pleasant visit of several days to
Mrs. Earl Statham at Cobb.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Joe Lee WILSON, who has recently
undergone d successful operation on
his eyes is expected to arrived in
Cordele the latter part of this week.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie Lee Wheeler
left Tuesday for Atlanta, where
Mrs. Wheeler will be under the adj
vice of a specialist.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

Mr.. r. l.. Huffman is spending ten
days at Black Mountain, North Caro-
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-25

guests of MT. and Mrs. r. I. Luff
man rneoute to Chattanooga, Tenn.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Nations Clocks Go Back
To Solar Time Tonight
Persons Who Forget 10 Turn
Watches Back Will Arise
Hour Early

Citizens who forget to turn their
clocks and watches back an hour on
gong u he'd tonight will wake up TO-
morrow morning an hour ahead of
timc. Lcgislated time gives place two
hours after midnight tonight to solar
,lmc, and thereafter, rs far as the
lni.ed States at large is concerned.
dwight saving. tho war measure
whose effect probably was felt more
directly by all the people than any
other, viii be thing of the past.
ON the last sunday next April.
however, Now York City will try the
eHpemmen, Of saving daylight on its
own account, whether or not anv other
~ OF state joins it meantime. Mavor
iiyian announced yesterday that he
1Nd approved the Moran resolution.
aeopted t"o weeks ago by the Board
Of Aldermen. This provides that clocks
pushed forward next April shall not
iefurn 20 sun time until the las, Sun
HAy N September.
IN approving the measure the Navor
said II would nullify the act of Con.
t'esS repeating the national DAYLIGHT
SSaT,"g lay, over the veto Of the Presi
ncA'' and give the people Of the cjtv
IN extra evening hour for recrcntion
Enlie incidentally saving something on
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Cigarette Smoking
BY Girls Is Called
Cause of Downfall
Mrs. Jessie Holder, Prison
Expert, Says Tobacco Aids
Waywardness; Program
of Correction Is Offered

Cigarette smoking for women was
condemned at yesterdays session of
the annual congress Of the American
Prison Association in the Pennsylvania
Hotel.
The question came up in connection
with the problem of the wayward girl
Mrs. Jessie D. Holder, Superintendent
of the Reformatory for Women, Fran
ingham. Mass. declared herself as op-
posed to the habit, and the other
women delegates backed her in her
stand
community program Tor the pro-
lection Of girls was outlined by Ar
thur ". Towne, of the Brooklyn So
ciety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children. He suggested some forty
means of giving the girls better care.
Jurisdiction of the chitrens court
should be extended to those of eighteen
years, said Mr. Towne Child labor
employment bureaus, roomlng houses.
dance halls, theatres and other amuse-
nent resorts should be protected bv
legislation, he said.
Mr.. Towne also advocated the es-
tablishment of child welfare boa rds
and d new bureau in the Juvenile
courts, which would furnish advice to
parents and friends before their
children arc arraigned in court MI.
Towne sad that III his estimation. no
girl under eighteen years OF age should
be given a license to marry without
the juvenile court passing upon it, He
advised the general use o. women pa
lice as protective and patrol officers.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Vice Being Driven OFF
Streets, Experts Assert
Social Welfare Workers Declare
Education Is Rapidly
Iessening Menace

Opportunities for studying and sup
pressing vice, offered by the present
state OF social disturbance throughout
the world were described last night
by Magistrate W. Bruce Cobb in an
address h"forc the American Social
Hygiene Associations Magistrate Cobb
told Of his ten years experience in
the women's court.
Never before has there been such
an opportunity to study vice as we have
day" said the magistrate. "Never
has there been such wealth Of definite
data as the experience Of the war has
provided, and never before has there
been more certainty Of lasting results" :"
The association has just completed
its annual series of general meetings
at which experts on the social work.
vice suppression and social reform gen
orally have contributed suggestions and
reports. Among the speakers we're ma
tlonally known experts
Throughout the country said Bas-
com Johnson chairman Of the legal
session last night. the concerted and
energetic action of police and detective
forces have enabled the courts to re-
move commercialized vice from the
streets The social workers arc edu-
eating young girls and keeping them
oft the streets by giving them proper
emotional ventilation. educators are
preaching morals, pointing out conse-
quences and insisting upon proper and
healthy physical exercise, and, finally.
medical science is spreading its work,
so the public health is being more and
more securely protected against the
effects Of social evil"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Spirits Show Man
DangerLurks, but
Ensnares Seeress
Maria Arista Warned by
Unseen Powers That De-
tective Is Pursued: Then
He Causes Her Arrest

The spirits told Maria Arsia that
John j. German was in peril from two
men, light man and a dark man, who
had sworn vengeance against him. But
they failed to tell her that German was
detective.
Besides being q Nttle pal of the
spirits, she told Magistrate Geirmar
IN the Fifth Avenue court, Brooklyn,
yesterday. thai che was phrenolorie'
she could read heads. If she could
have read feet she wouldn't have tried
to get $3.50 OF Gorman's money by the
simple bat ehicacious method Of max
ing it disappear from view Besides
that, according to German, she told
him to come back the next dav with
SO and an egg.
Nine. Arista who lives at t76 Hick~
Street, was before Magistrate Geismar
on Gorman's complaint as disoreerlv
person. a'his is the story German. who
is attached to the Fourteenth Inspec-
tlon District, told:
II was Investigating complaints o.
fortune tel!ers victimizing a number O"
persons, and went to this woman's place
and asked her to tell my fortune. She
invited me into the Darlor and told me-
10 sit down. sat.
+NSNS i'StCttINS foI money
Then she asked if | had half dol.
lar. ! had. She told me TO put 1t in
my left palm. ] did Then she looked
at my right palm. She told r,e to take
of my hat. did. She told me to sit
on the floor. ] did. She told ne to nut
the half dollar on top Of my head. |
did.
"rhen she said she was going to
commune with the spirits she went
cut into another room, where the
spirits seemed to be. She came back.
She said the spirits had told her that
two men were after me-a light man
and .,I dark m&r-and wanted to Kill me.
She said she would try TO fix it up so
that they wouldn't get me-
she asked if had Z handkerchief
! had. She SAID to take it out and
blow in it. did She asked if | had
50 bill. had. She SAID TO produce
it. did. There was with a 81 Bill
N one hand and half-dollar on the
crown Of my heao, sitting on the floor
ihen she got Ii glass Of water, and put
the 20 bill under ii. Then She put the
handkerchief around the glass and the
SO bill.
Money Vanishes Quickly
"Thon she asked if ! mad dollar
bill. | had. She said to put it in nv
hiOHtt- uIC. men Sne ECl some
bread and salt and put it on the hand
Gerchief and made q few passes, and
said:
eco away, bad men
"Shc took the 81 bill out of my
mouth. 1t vanished She picked tn,
alf-dollar off my head and gathered
up the glass and handkerchief and 81
blll. Then she gave me the b,oad and
salt and told me to come back the next
day with $40 bill and an egg
Magistrate Geismar asked:
"llow much money have you9'
She said She hadn't any. but six
gypsy friends who accompanied her to
court produced $25 among them. Mag
strate Geismar divided the S25 as fol
lows: $40 for Il cash bond, $3.50 ia
German. the rest in carfare to the
woman to get as far from Brooklyn as
it would carry her.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
fre threatens Landmark
And Destroys Records
insurance Adjustments in C;,v
May BE Held Up; Damage
Estimated at $40. 900

flre threatened to wipe out q land.
mark more than i century old Iass
eh' when flames worked their wav
.hrough The tao buildings ut and
o Dutch Street. ''"N
n the building at Dutch Stree,
Ter4 'he kathbun & Bird Company
nachipists Wiggers & Froelich. man
ntacturers Of jewelry novelties. and D.
y brown Co.. printers. The print.
ns concern. whose plant was swept bv
..Hmee, publishes the Daily Morninr
re Report" upon which most of the
cliy's Insurance adjustments are based
The concerns lsts Of fire depart
mem reports were destroyed and il was
ald tnat coHs'derable difficulty prob.
eDly would be experienced III the ad
tn*tment Of numerous fires thai,
occurred within the last few weeks.
The building first vas used com
inerciaiiy by the Colgate Soap Com
pany, In 1900 Since then ii has been
ased ~ Il hotei. Tor stores, lofts and
* present uses. The damage war
iiinated at $4,000
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Boy of II Held as Slayer
Arrested i'm Classroom for
Shooting Conductor

ORANGE, n. j., Oct. 2A.-Twelvc-
year-old Curtis f. Brace was taken
from his classroom at the Columbian
School here today to answer a charge
of shooting Peter A. Cramer, IL Lacka-
wanna conductor, fatally injured while
riding in the cab of an engine Sunday
afternoon.
According to Leigh owen, Il play
mate, the Brace boy stood in an attic
window of the Brace home last Sun
day. and, pointing a small bore rifle he
had found. said, "Watch me hit that
engine The shot was fred and, said
Owen, man in the cab slumped down
in his seat.
Not until last night, at notion
picture show, did Owen. learning Of
Cramers death, tell his father, who i'm
mediately notified Chief Of Police
ONeill Of East Orange.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Strike Oh Independent
Ggarma&ers l. Ended
1900 Union Wen Get Increase
and Assurance OF Fair PIa>
in Hiring of E,nnlovaes

About ooo cipsrlnakers who have
peen on strike since July 1 viii return
TO work Monday. They will receive y
III per cent increase in WAGES and viii
eject factory committees 30 insure
against discrimination in hiring or
dlschafging of union members.
These proposals were submitted "a
the str'kdrs after conference of
union leaders and nineteen independent
employers at the Hotel Marlborough
rney were accepted by + to ( vote.
ne UNION first asked an avera gc wage
increase OF l7's pr cent forty-iour
hour week and a closed shop
NJ. :. Brandon. o. thc ciqarmakers'
general strike committee, denied re-
ports That all the strikers were return
ing. He said thai only the indepen-
dent employers had submitted IA com
promise agreement
81 he members of The Bio Four"
explained Mr.. Brandon, are still hold
ing out. They ohc no compromise.
and the workers are detcrmnod to re-
main out until they win their demands.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Hero Loses His V. e..
CaptOr of I8 Germans Prizes
Medal More Than LEG

Private Stephen l.. Smith. of the I'd
Canadian Engineers, lost Victoria
Cross IN the New York Aquarium, or
near 1t, at about p. IN. YESTERDAY.
He won the cross at Mons, in 1917. for
capturing eighteen Germans Just aftcr
his leg had been shot off. Since tho
V. {. il the highest honor the Hritish
government can grant, Private Smith
ssaya ne would haze preferred to have
lost his other leg
The V, &. medal is in the form Of a
crown, with Il large ' and a cross hang
ing from it, Private Smith viii yc+
It Il it ia retarned to The Tribuns
Snit'. lives af 20 Fulton street. Rrook-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
''Tin Plate King Is Sued
Wife Says Daniel &. Reid Was
Friendly With Other Women

Daniel &. Reid, "tn plate king"
railroad man and promoter OF some Of
the largest corporations in the United
States, who already is the p!aintin in
divorce suit, yesterday also became
the defendant in Il similar action filed
IN the Supreme Court by Mrs. Margaret
{. Reid.
Mrs. Reid alleges that MIR. Reid mis-
conducted himself with various women
IN New York and elsewhere. Reid al
legged Mrs. Reid had been too friendly
with Captain Sampson f. Tschernow.
Serbian army officer The latter has
retained counsel TO dieprovc these
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Sheriff DonneEly Explains
Had No Intention OF Disregard-
ing Courts Order

Sheriff James F Donnelly of Bronx
County yesterday answered "A summons
IN contempt proceedings by telling
'udee "lDbs IN the Bronx County Court
that he had carried out the court,s
orders and that he had had no inten-
tlon Of refusing to do so.
Sheriff Donnelly Had been ordered TO
take prisoner to the Post GRADUATE.
Hospital for examination, but was said
to have refused to do 20 on the grounds
that Bellevue Hospital was the only
hospital in the city With "a prisoners
The sNl.nation w,s satisfactory to-
~, md -sNeho LL1l-- -dLn.nL.- N i
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Schurman to Replace
Books Huns Burned
Head of Cornell University
Offers Library 10
LNuyain

President Jacob Gould Schurman of
Cornell University has offered his en-.
IRE philosophical library to realacc
tne volumes destroyed by the Germans
wnen they burned the library Of the
University of Louvain.
night by the executive committee nS
thc National Committee for the Res
toration OF the Library of the Um-
versity Of Louvain. ''''
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Mem 1)ork Grib11ne OCTOBER % 1919

NJ. Borkan, Juror II, collapsed and fell
to the floor. He was Immediately ex-
cused and sent to his home.
Ten minutes later Edward Berry
took his place and the taking of testi-
mony again was started. Gerry fell to
the floor in faint. He was hurried
to Fordham Hospital, where he died
Of hemorrhage Of the brain short
time later.
Another Juror IL must be chosen
this morning before the trial can be
resumed.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Velvet hats 0t So

300 in the most favored littc shapes of The season.
plain and panne velvet. trimmed with fur seane and
flowers
First aoor Building
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Briefs

Inc mon OF Orthodox Jewish Congrega-
tons of America will hold convention in
New York beginning November 80. to con-
slider problems of religious reconstruction, it
WAS announced yesterday.
A check for $l9,833 has been forwarded
by the Merchants Association to Governor
W. P. Hobby of Texas, to be used in relief
work at Corpus Christi. which recently was
swept by n Gull storm. This is only part
payment of the fund being raised by the as
sociation.
II is announced that Liberty bonds will be
accepted by the Hebrew National Orphan
Asylum in its drive for $500000
The body Of n man found on the Palisad
near Edgewater, N. j., with IL bullet wound
in the temple and another near the heart
has been identified that of Franklin Bar
lngton, of West Philadelphia.
The Coast Guard cutter Manhattan was
sent out to search for floating mine re-
ported on Wednesday az drifting in latitude
39 rs. longitude "a :o4. The derelict de
stroyer Seneca. which had been searching for
the mine, arrived here and reported that no
mine had been observed in that vicinity.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
fIies From London to Cologne

CoLoCNE, Oct. 2s.-~captain George
1s'the~s 'r English aviator who lrft
,"ndon II Jaeeday for ~ airplane
ffsiiT. aeriqed hcte
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Dance fv0cks, .S,39. Is

For young women. Black SATIN with hnc Sleeves
and bodice of fine net trimmed with black silk velvet
ribbon.
Second floor, Old Building
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Chiickeri;n0
z1lpic0 !;
And il is quite natural.

The CHICKERINt1-AMPICO reproduces the actual
playing of RACHMANNOFF for example, the great Rus
sian composer and pianist MISCA IEVITZKI than whom
no pianist since the advent of Paderewk has completely
won IN single season the position he holds in the musical
world today:
(---hear his Hungarian Rhapsody No. E as
reproduced by the ChicAering- -Ampco-)
arthur kubnSell Leopold (odowski, Ornsten. kreis-
er and others including Arden and Williams, Berge Donald
Mackay Sterling and Pollock who play such irresis1 IDLE
dance music for the AMPICO
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
W0men's coats, $3.50

Special purchase of three good models m silvertm
canelian cord and chincha in beaver color beige and
taupe: without fur.
Second floor, Old Building
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Young girls coats, $3.50, ;S42. so

Sizes to 10 at S42..0 large shawl collar, Of natlra
raccoon nutria. silyertone fasan or brown
Sizes s to Il at $3.50 three types broadcloth
heavy wool ratine. chcvron.
Second floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Women s frocks al .S25

Same models and materials and same price as fe
frocks that women liked much and bought up ST.
quickly some weeks ago Three models IN serge one
tafeta.
Second floor, Old Building.