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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-11
Eew CnSe Eilod.
Realty Deeds Filed.

Gcrtrui" *. Mll'S v. Raymond
William Mylrs. Action f'r divorce.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-02-14
OTTO IRVING WISE DIES.
February i, 1919.

New York.-Otto Irving Wise,
prominent lawyer of San Francisco,
brother Of Rabbi Stephen Samuel
Wise, of the Free Synagogue, and
of Joseph H. Wise, both of this
city, died Thursday, January %, of
pneumonia at his home in San
Francisco.
Mr. Wise was born in Budapest,
Hungary, December 5, 1871, son
of the Rev. DR.. Aaron and Sabine
Wise, and came to America in 1874.
He was student at the College of
the City of New York in 1857,
and the following two years he
studied at the New York Univer-
sity. He was admitted to the bar
in New York City, where he prac-
ticed for some time before removing
to San Francisco. When he was p
years old he ran for the assembly in
the old Twenty-frst New York Dis
trict, but was defeated by a small
majority. He was vice president
and general counsel of the Western
States Life Insurance Company,
Pacific Sanitary Life Insurance
Company, Pacific Porcelain Ware
Company, and member of the board
of directors of the San Francisco
Federation of Jewish Charities. He
was also trustee of the Temple
of Rodelph Sholem of this city.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-02-14
A),3

nifty and to prepare scheme for
electing an administration on wide
ly democratic system The new
committee has issued an appeal for
unity among the Jews and has prom
ised to afford the electors an early
opportunity of setting up a perma-
nent management.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-02-14
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

DIR. Alfred Stern, the aged presi-
dent Of the Jewish Community in
Vienna, who recently resigned, has
died. When he resigned commit
tee representing the old Council, the
Jewish Members of Parliament, and
the Nationalist Jews, was formed to
manage the affairs of the Commu-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
Georgia, Sumter County.

Georgia, Sumter County.
Will be sold before the courthouse
door, Americas, Sumter county, Ga
on the 9Th day of May, the first Tues
day in Nav, 1919, between the legal
hours of sale to the highest bidder
for cash the following described proper
ty, to-wit:
A certain lot in the City of Americ-
Gus, Sumter County, Georgia, on the
south side of Fielder street., with all
improvements thereon, fronting on
Fielder street one hundred and forty
five (145) feet,m more or less, and run
ming back south to the property of the
Seaboard Air Line railroad four hun
dred (400) feet, more or less, and be-
ing of equal width from the front to
the rear of said property; commenc-
ing at the northeast corner of said lot
where it intersects the property of
White, and running south four hundred
(400) feet, more or less, to the prop
erty of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road, thence west one hundred and
forty-five q45) feet, more or less, to
the lot of Mrs. S. P. Tomlinson, thence
north four hundred (400) feet, more
or less to Fielder street, thence east
along Fielder street one hundred and
forty-five (145) feet, more or less to
starting point, bounded north by Eel
der street, east by property of White,
south by property of Seaboard Air
Line and West by lot of Mrs. S. P.
Tomlinson.
Said property levied on and tosbe
sold as the property of of the estate
of Mrs. S. P. Tomlinson, deceased,
to satisfy certain execution which
issued from the City Court of Ameri-
Gus, said county, on the 18th day of
January, 1919, in favor of the United
States Fidelity & Guaranty Company
against Thomas M. Tomlinson, execu-
tor of the estate of S. P. Tomlinson,
Tenants in possession and defendant
in fl ia notified in terms of the law
This Sth day of April, 1919.
LUCIUS HARVEY,
Sheriff Sumter County. Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

follows; North by Church street;
east by property of Mrs. S. P. Schum-
pert; south by Olin Dixon and west
by property of the estate of R. E. Cato,
and known originally as No. 306, but
now as 312 Church street, and being
the property where z, S. Childers now
resides.
Said property levied on and to be
sold as the property of z. S. Childers
to satisfy a certain fl ia, which issued
from the City Court of Americas dur
ing the year 1917 in favor of R. E.
Cato, and which was transferred by
the estate of R. E. Cato to W. E.
Mitchell. Tenant in possession and
defendant in fl ia notified in terms of
the law.
This April Sth, 1919.
LUCIUS HARVEY,
Sheriff Sumter County, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
Americas Hi Nine
Trounces Albany

The fast Americas High school
baseball team played it's second game
of the season Friday at Albany, where
it defeated the Albany team by a
score of to 5. The game was de-
clared by the members of the team to
have been clean and fast, with ex-
eellent work on both sides.
Johnson and Monohan were the
batteries for Americas, and Johnson
was the star 0 fthe game. Besides
pitching excellent ball he hit a spec
tacular and exceedingly long home
run with one man on the base.
The team is planning on long and
successful season, preparation being
on foot for continuing to play weekl'
until July. The first game Of the
season was played Friday Of the re
vious week with the Souther Field
team, on which there are said to be
at least two former professionals The
soldiers won this game ny one point
the score being to 3.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

Georgia, Sumter County.
Notice is herby given to the public
that on the 26th day of April, 1919,
at the Office of q. A. Littlejohn, Judge
of the Superior court of Sumter Coun-
ty, Georgia, there will be heard be-
fore said q. A. Littlejohn, judge of
said court, the petition of julie FELTON,,
as Solicitor General of the Southwest
ern Circuit, in the name of the State
of Georgia, against Sumter County,
Georgia, for the valuation of an issue
of bonds for and in the name of said
county of Sumter, State of Georgia in
the sum of $500,000.00 for the
construction and building of perma-
nent roads in said county as is speci-
fed and provided in an order passed
and granted on the 14th day of April,
1919, by q. A. Littlejohn, judge of the
Superior court of the Southwestern
Circuit fixing said date of April Goth
1919, for the hearing of said petition.
This notice is given as provided by
section $50 of the. Code of Georgia of
1910.
H. E. ALLEN,
Clerk of the Superior Court of Sum-
ter County, Ca, May 8.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
having accepted said trust.


Now, therefore, by virtue Of said
order will be sold for the purpose of
division, according to law in such
cases made and provided on the First
Tuesday in May, 1919, between the
legal hours of sale to the highest bid
der for cash, the following described
property, to-wit: Fifteen and fifty
sixth one hundreths acres of land
located in the 18th District of Sumter
Countq, Ga, beginning at the North
east corner of the property of ]. D.
Williams, q portion of lot number 221;
running east to the old road which
leads by the house of the said John
E. Ward; thence going along said
road in a Northerly direction to a
point nine chains and fifty links from
the north line ow said lot 221 in said
District and County; thence running
east to the lands allotted to T. G. Will
liams; thence south to the southwest
corner of the lands of T. G. Williams;
thence east to the land lot of 228;
thence south to the northeast corner
of j. D. Williams to the starting point.
Also that tract of land where the
house of ]. D. Colby, deceased, is now
located, beginning at the northwest
corner of land lot number 221, going
to the east side of the road which
runs in front of the house; thence
along on the east side of the old road
to the northeast corner of the proper
ty allotted to W. A. Jones; thence west
to the west line of lot 221; thence
north to the northwest corner of lot
22l along the west land line to starting
point all in the 18th District of Sum
ter County, Ca, said property sold as
the property of the plaintiffs and the
defendant for the purpose of division
as per terms of the order of the Court.
W. H. CHAPPELL, J. A. MILLS and
JESSE FAUST, Commissioners.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

You are hereby commanded to be and
appear at the next term of the Su-
perior Court of said County of Sumter,
State of Georgia, to be held on the
Fourth Monday in May, 1919, and make
your answer in the above named and
stated case, as required by the order
Of said court.
Witness the Honorable 2. A. Little
john, Judge of the Superior Court. this
the 18th day of March, 1919.
H. e. ALLEN.
Clerk, Sumter SUPERIOR Court.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

Georgia, S inter County.
Will be sold before the courthouse
door on the first Tuesday in May,
1919, between the legsl hours of sale,
to the highest and best bidder for cash.
the following desirable property, to-
wit:
All of block "C", containing thirty
one (3D acres including house there
on as per plat made by Crook and
Lanneau, which is recorded in deed
book LII page LAG, and being part
of what is known as Edgewood in
Sumter county, Georgia, said tract or
parcel of land being bounded as fol-
lows: On the North by Highland ave-
nue.; east by vacant property; South
by Grant avenue, and on the West
by Elm avenue; said property being
in custody and control of Mrs. Laura
E. Mcleod, Administrative of the es-
tate of R. L. Mcleod, deceased.
Said property levied upon and will
be sold as the property of Mrs. Laura
E. McLeod) Administrative on the es-
tate of r. L. Mcleod, deceased, to
satisfy certain fl ia which issued
from the City Court Of Americas in
favor of ]. w. Howard VS.. Mrs. Laura
r. Mcleod, Administrtrix, as afore-
said.
Tenant in possession and defendant
in fla ia notified in terms Of the law
This 9Th day of April, 1919.
LUCIUS HARVEY,
Sheriff Sumter Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
9th Mail Carrier
for City Service

The sixth city letter carrier has
been added to the loo alpostof1ce, the
government having granted the re-
quest of Postmaster Davenport for the
additional man. The new carrier has
already taken up his work, which has
resulted in the extension of the home
delivery service.
The carriers cover the city for a
radius of one mile from the postoffice.
When only five carriers did the work
the less thickly populated portions of
the outskirts could not be given the
same attention that it is no wpossible
to give them, according to Mr.. Daven-
port.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
COMMISSIONER,S SAFE.

Under and by virtue of an order Of
the Hon. 2. A. Littlejohn as Judge of
the Superior Court of the Southwest
ern Curcuit grnated on the Sth day Of
February, 1919 in the matter of a
petition brought by C. F. Turner as the
Guardian of the minor children of
Mary Elizabeth Turner, deceased, to-
wit: Irene; Christella; Thomas Roye
and George William Turner against o.
P. Jones in which petition the said
Court appointed w. II. Chappell: ]. A.
Mills and Jesse Faust as Commission
ers to sell the lands hereinafter set
forth--said petition being for the pur-
pose OF partitioning the lands herein
after set forth. The Commissioners
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

One John Church Company piano,
style, c. M. No. 1857. Said property
being levied on under and by virtue of
fl ia in favor of the Church Company
VS.. Franc Mangum, principal, and j.
M. Council, security, issued from the
City Court of Americas, March Term
1919. Said property to be sold as the
property of Franc Mangum.
This, April the 9Th, 1919.
LUCIUS HARVEY,
Sheriff of Sumter County.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

L. Thigpen by her guardian, Mrs. An
ME M. Cults, VS.. Richard D. Hatton
and the Republic Mining & Mannfac-
turing Company. In the Superior
Court of Sumter County, May Term,
1919. Equitable Petition for the Re-
covery of Certain Undivided Interests
in Lot Of Land No. 214 in the 2Sth
District, Sumter County, Georgia, and
for an Accounting, Receiver, Injunc-
ton, Mesne Profits, Cancellation OF
Deed and Other Equitable Relief.
To Richard D. Hatton. Defendant
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
kEENS ON JOB TO
SETTLE PHONE STRIKE.

BOSTON, April 19.-(Bq Associat-
ed Press.)-Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Keens, chairman of the wire con-
troll board, told representatives of the
striking telephone workers today that
he saw no reason why the strike
could not be settled within few
hours. He said he had full power
from Postmaster General Burleson to
adjust the difficult
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Georgia, Sumter County.
Will be sold before the courthouse
door, in Americas, Sumter county, Ca,
on the 9Th day of May, the first Tues
day in May, 1919, between the legal
hours TO sale to the highest bidder
for cash the following desrcibed prop
erty, to-wit:
One certain house and lot in the
City of Americas, Sumter county, Ca,
on the south side of Chruch street,
fronting north on Church seventy
(70) feet, and extending back south
a distance of two hundred and ten
(21O) feet, more or less; bounded as
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
Leave TO Sell Realty.
gia, Sumter County.

georgia, Sumter County.
Notice is hereby given that Thorn
as l.. Summers, Administrator of A
L. Smith, deceased, has applied for
leave to sell the real estate located
in Sumter county, Georgia, of said de-
ceased, and if no objections are filed
leave to sell will be granted at May
term, 1919, of this court.
JOHN A. COBB,
Ordinary, Sumter County, Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
WILSON REFUSES
TO INTERVENE
in PHONE STRIKE

PARIS, April 19.-(By Associated
Press.) -President Wilson this morn
ing cabled Secretary Tumulty, de-
elining the request he received from
the New England governors to inter
vene in the telephone strike in New
England. He said he couldn't act in
diligently at this distance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
Uncle Eben.

"Dar's heap O. seIfshness in hui
Aan nature" said Uncle Eben "a
ot O. men wishes everybody Happy
lew Year on January first an takes
al. back on January second"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

GEORGIA. Sumter County.
DR.. ]. L. Johnson, Judson Johnson,
A. j. Johnson, Amos Johnson, Mrs.
Annie Davis, Mrs. Mamie Griffin, Thos.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20
GEORGIA, Sumter County.

uHOhGIA, sumter County.
VIII be sold before the courthouse
door between the legal hours of sale
on the first Tuesday In May, 1919, the
following described property, to-wit:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-20

666 quickly relieves Constipation,
BiliOuSness, Loss of Appetite and
Headaches, due to Torpid Liver.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Miss Hoffman, Aged IL,
To Have $4,000 a Year
Fathers Will Provides Tha
Sum for Her Education and
Maintenance

Charles Frederick Hoffman, who was
a real estate operator and treasurer of
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
in his will filed yesterday, directed that
$4,000 year be devoted to the cdu-
cation and maintenance Of his seven
teen-year-old daughter, Marian Krumb-
h;ar Hoffman. Mr.. Hoffman said in his
will:
81 desire that this money shall be
expended for the purposes set forth
out of the inheritance which l re-
ceived from my fathers estate, in order
that Marian may keep up the state of
life which is suitable to one in her
station"
Mr. Hoh'man's father was the Rev
DR.. Charles Frederick Hoffman. Miss
Hoffman also will receive the residue
Of her fathers estate at the death of
her mother, Mrs. Zelia Krumbhaar
Hoffman. who is to receive the income
for life from the residuary estate. The
testator extended to his widow the
privilege of demanding from the ex-
ccutors $4,000 semi-annually, which
they are instructed to pay on such
demand. Mrs. Hoffman also receives
Armsea Hall, .he family country place
at Newport, r. L., and all of her hus-
bands paintings, silverware, jcwelry
and other personal property.
To the cathedral of st. John the
Divine and Columbia University, Mr.
Hoffman left $4,000 each. Fourteen
servants and three Office employees re.
ceive 500 each.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Fighting Anzacs Initiated
In Baseball Mysteries

A. a. party of 81 husky Australian
soldiers, straight from the battlefields
OF Europe, were initiated into the
mysteries of baseball at the Polo
Grounds yesterday.
These soldiers from the antipodes
are the fortunate men chosen by the
Australian government from 1000 ap-
plicants for years study in intensive
farming at Califarnia. colleges.
The party arrived in this city Thurs
day in charge of Captain f. II. Davies.
They will remain here until midnight
tonight. when they take train for
California. There they will enter col
leges and later finish their training
on hog ranches.
I'VE are specializing on hog raising"
said Captain Davies yesterday. but
we are going to get instruction in ir
rrlgation and intensive farming. In
australia we acknowledge the United
states to be the leading country in the
world on these subjects.
The training will be of great bene-
ut to us, as there are vast tracts in
the five Australian States that can be
irrigated successfully and put under
cultivation. The majority Of the men
will study in California for vear al.
though there are few who will
De there for only six months. Then we
Will return to Australia and MT ;nto
practice what we have learned"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Inquiry Planned Into
Queens Jailbreak

James A. Hamilton, Commssioner of
Correction, is going to the Queens
County Jail, in Long Island City, to-
day to find out just how Harry Schroe-
der managed to escape on August 27
and whether it was as easy as Schroe-
der, who was arrested Thursday, says it
was. Joseph Blunt, who got away at
the same time, has not been recapt-
ured This is what Schroeder said yes
terday about his escape:
Getting out Of that Jail was easy
I had me young lady friend call on me,
and l told her how she could get me
some saws and where she could get
them. She got them all right, and then
she put them in a package and tossed
them over the big wall around the jail
yard out there. After l got the saws
| took Blunt into me confidence He
was on the same tier with me, but six
cells away. We worked together all
right: 1t took US nearly four nights to
get the cell bars sawed. On the night
We broke we waited until the keeper
on our tier went down to supper. They
didn't get onto US until we was break
ing out. Then some keeper set up a
holler, but while he was waiting for
his partner we was out of the window
and down the rope | made out of me
blanket.
I'm the yard l found a pole and this
helped me get to the top of the wall
helped Blunt un and then We beat it,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Budget Increase of
$5,O0O,O 700. Is Asked,
With More to Come
Fourteen Departments File
Claims and Three Others
Are Expected to Add Ten
Millions to the Figures

More than s5,000,O0O increase in ap-
preparations was requested yesterday
by fourteen city departments Of the
1920 budget makers. Millions more in
increases are expected when the de-
partments Of police, fire and cduca-
ton are heard from. The major por-
ton of the increases will go into salary
raises and new jobs.
If the increases are granted the 1920
budget will be at least S15,000,o00 in
excess of this years budget, which was
S24S000,000. This was the largest in
the city's history, being an excess of
$1O,000,000 over the last year Of the
Mitchell administration.
The amounts received in this years
budget by the fourteen departments
who made their requests yesterday and
the increases asked for the ensuing
year follow:
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
dentist Loses $4,000
In Painless Extraction
''Patient" Confesses i'm Court; F.;
Saws He Didn't Even Give
{p Tooth in "Deai"

DR.. Abraham Wolfson, who has
dental offices at 4O1 West Fifty-ninth
Street, learned something new about
painless extraction when he appeared
in Yor,<viilc Court yesterday and
identified William Miller. of 3l2 East
Fifty third Street. as former patient.
Miller had lust been arrested by
Detective Hooker for the alleged theft
of clothing from neighboring 'roomer.
Hooker told the court that while
searching the prisoner ne found papers
belonging to DR.. Wolfson and that
Miller had then confessed that he had
other prope}y O. the dentists in
Guiding $500 worth Of negotiable
stock and notes.
When he appeared in court, DR..
Wolfson identified Miller at once. ~
think, the dentist ruminated, that
pulled tooth for him."
The prisoner grinned.
mo you didn't, Doc, he contradict
ed, "You didn't get anything of mine
but while you were examining my
teeth went through YOU. Gee, you
were an easy mark"
Miller was held in $4,000 bail
charged with grand larceny.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Ia Cuartlia Fauors Raise
For Firemen and Police
Candidate for President OF
aldermen Willing to Make
That the Campaign Issue
NcW York Tribune
WdSl,imQiOn HMrcnn

WASHINGTON, Sept 5.--Represent-
ative f. II. La Guardia to-day an
nounced that he will begin his cam
paign as Republican nominee for
Pres dent of the Board of Aldermen Of
New York City next Monday night with
a speech at the Baysidc Republican
Club, Long Island, and will devote
practically all his time from now until
November to the campaign.
His platform will include demand
for higher pay for policemen and fire
men, economy in city expenditures. and
an attempt to give expression to what
he terms the general distrust Of and
dissatisfaction with the Democratic ad-
ministration, city. state and national.'
Representative La Guardia declared
that if William H. Bennett, his oppo-
nent in the primaries, shows that, as
charged, there was fraud in the pri-
mary. and if Mr.. Bennett is nominated
he viii support Mr.. Bennett as Repub-
lican nominee. Mr.. La Guardia said he
did not know yet whether Mr.. Bennett
would reciprocate.
ASIDE from expressing in my can
ddacy the feeling of thousands that
The Democratic administration. city
state and national. is unworthy OF
trust" said Representative La Guar
da, "I shall base my platform on the
idea that the citizens Of New Yorl
City, stockholders in the greatest cor
poration in the world, shall have a rea
voice Oh the Board of Estimate anl
Apportionment.
IL shall, if elected, as | Will be. cur
tail cxtravagances now present in the
administration of city affairs and cut
out contracts given to favorites cost
ing the city millions annually.
Il shall do everything in my power
to give the frcmen and the policemen
a decent living wage. BY that l NEAR
to support the figures submitted by the
policemen and fremen TO the city, ant
! am willing to make that an issue 81
that the people may have an oppor
-unity to express themselves on tha
question:"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
j 500 New York Patrolmen
In Debt to Loan Company

which he cannot buy from his salary.
This is his second loan. He is un-
married.
AT the present rates Of pay these
men cannot hope to ever be free from
debt" President Moran of the P, B, A.
says. "Ther monthly income, which
is never more than $l34, barely will
meet their bills for rent, food and
other current expenses Any emer-
Gency which demands an extra cash
expenditure will force them at once
into a new loan. The margin between
current expense and income has been
obiiterated, and every loan which they
are forced to make involves a further
permanent charge which helps to keep
their borrowings and repaymcnts run
ming on continuously, in an endless
chain"