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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-22
III Drama e., e.: Movies

cess as 1t was in former years. He
will offer it with two Topsies and two
Marks, with elaborate scenic effccts
showing the Ohio river and the cot
ton fields. and with plantation sing
ers and band.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
Polly Picture Prize Contest Has
More Than 7wo Hundred Entrants
Montezuma Bank
Head Shoots Self

MONTEZUMA, GA-After tell
ing another business man to get out
of his office because he wanted to
commit suicide, former Congressman
E. B. Lewis, president of both the First
National Bank and the Lewis Bank
ing Company here, shot himself thru
the right temple in his office in the
Lewis Banking Company's place of
business late Friday. and died in few
moments later. Friends attribute his
act to temporary insanity resulting
from worry over general business con-
ditions.
Lewis, who was IS years of age,
served as State Senator from the thir-
teenth district and was later elected
to congress from the Third congress
sional district. He was director of
the Birmingham and Atlanta Railroad
and was interested in the Georgia &
Florida Railroad.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
Expect to Augment $500 Already
Subscribed Enough to Sup
port Work For Time.
Executive Committee Meets To-
day to Take Action on Com
mittee's Suggestion.

At the meeting Friday afternoon OF
the Campaign Finance Committee OF
the Community Service council res
olution was passed recommending
that worker be employed for a peri
cd of three months to carry on the
community service program.
A total of $4,000 cash and $4,000
pledges was raised by the campaign
committee Thursday. The committee
was confident that this amount could
be raised to $4,000 on pledge basis
and that the work could be supported
for at least three months longer.
Present at the meeting Friday were
Mesdames F. R. Justice, H. A. Mathis,
H. K. Sigh, Frank Ward, ]. B. Wall,
of the Executive Committee, and Mes
danes ]. L. McCarty, O. L.. Bradshaw
and |. Gelders, Ward Chairmen.---
Miss Agnes L. Weed, special rep
resentative of Community Service who
was here, is now stationed in Moul-
trie. Frederick w. Dixon, district rep
resentative has gone to Chicago, Ill.,,
to take place on the faculty of the
training school for workers. A. L.
Lincoln, local organizer, will remain
here until the executive committee
takes definite action. 1t is probable
that Miss Boyle will be secured to
take the work in charge here if the
committee decides to carry it on.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
Check Raising Charge
Puts Youth In Jail
Two White Men In County Jail
Today Say They Couldn't
Find Work.

Charged with raising a check of
$l00 to $500 on Mrs. ]. E. Atkins,
Jack Kingsberry, a young man who
has been soliciting magazine subscrip-
tons here for several days, was ar
rested and placed in Ben Hill County
Jail Friday. He admits raising the
check.
81 couldn't find a job at which
could make living" he said, and ]
had to live" He blames H. L. John
son, who employed him to collect mag
azine subscriptions and worked with
him here for several days, for having
given him the idea of check raising
and then leaving him stranded. 1T
is my first slip" says Kingsberry,
and all l want is freedom and job. "
Hal Etheridge, of Columbus, was
brought back from Cordele this morn
ing to face charge of attempting to
beat his way on the railroad, using
another mans pass. He says he is an
electrician, but couldn't find work of
any kind in this section and was try
ing to find some place where a job was
obtalnable. Il want to work and be
able to pay for what | get" Etheridge
declared, but when a man is willing
to work and can't, what is he going to
do?"
Both young men are in the early
twenties. They occupy the same cell
at the Ben Hill county jail.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
BUSINESS MEN AND
BANKERS INVITED
Will Aid A. B. & A. and Cham
bers of Commerce in Work
MAKE YEARS PROGRAM
Asked To Lend Ideas and Sup
port To Prosperity Drive

Bankers and leading business men
OF Central South Georgia from Cor
dele to Waycross along the A.. B. &
A. Railroad have been invited to
meet with Colonel B. L. Bugg, presi-
dent of the A. B. * A. Railroad and
J. L. Edwards, vice president at the
Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce
rooms at 3 o'clock Wednesday after
noon. They will try to work out a
plan OF campaign to pull this section
out OF the present trough in the bus
mess sea and boost it over on a wave
OF prosperity during the coming year.
The extension department experts
OF the railroad have mapped out a
tentative program of work which de-
mands the cooperation of the COM
mercial and financial interests of the
section in encouraging steady "un-
scared attitude toward business and
sane agricultural policy. The rail.
road men will ask the business men
and bankers to help them encourage
the farmers to grow enough differ
ent crop to insure good markets and
good prices for ALL
The most important thing South
Georgia business has to accomplish
this year." declared one of the rail-
road extension men, is to quiet the
panicky feeling that many farmers
have been allowed to get and to turn
back the steady drift Of this season
from farm to city. They have got to
prevent cut production next wear"
If the men with money in this sec
ton allow the farmers, through dis
enlargement or for any other cause,
to cut production, it means really
rocky year for the section and means
inestimable damage to all business.
The conference Wednesday is to
reach some definite plan by which the
men who have the most to lose thru
period of hard times, can help pre-
vent such a period.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
QUITS FIGHT FOR
FREEDOM TUESDAY
Hearing on Bail Will Be at 10
O'clock Tuesday Morning
HOPSON, SR., ARRIVES
Father of Accused Boy Will AS
sist in His Defense, Said

MACON, Dec. 13-From Perry
comes the information that B. B.
Hopson, former husband of Mrs. F.
E. Elmer, father of Ernest and John
Hopson, has arrived there to be of
whatever assistance that he can to
the former son who is in jail in that
city, in connection with the death OF
Fred D. Shepard
The elder Hopson has been in Ak
ron, Ohio and came here as soon as
he could arrange his personal affairs
in that city.
Eldridge Cults, Fitzgerald lawyer.
arrived here yesterday afternoon to
get ready for the preliminary hearing
of his wife, Mrs Annie M. Cults, who
is one of the four persons under ar
rest in connection with the death of
Shepard. He was the only visitor to
Mrs. Cuts cell at the county Jail
yesterday. Mrs. Cults preferring to
spend the day alone.
. Mrs. Cults Petition Surprises
The first legal move IN behalf of
Mrs. Annie Cults, the filing of Pc
tition for a hearing for her and the
signing of an order by Judge H. A.
Mathews requiring the State to show
cause why she should not be dis
charged to bail, was the latest de-
velopment in the case. There was no
explanation from the lawyers for Mrs.
Cults as to why they had delayed
their action, applications in the other
cases having been filed several days
ago.
Everything appears to be in read
mess for the hearing on Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock before Judge
H. A. Mathews in the Superior Court
in this city. Affidavits have been
assembled and the case was in such
case yesterday, Solicitor Garrett
stated that he had his first day of
real rest in long time.
A At the hearing the defense will at
tEKnpt to force Solicitor Garrett to
present practically his whole case, in
Guiding oral testimony from all of the
accusers. The solicitor, however, be-
lieves that this is not necessary and
lawyers familiar with the case point
to the fact that in more than one
case Judge John P. Ross, now the
attorney for Mrs. Iona Irene Henry
and Ernest Hopson, did not present
the main facts of the case under sim
liar circumstances.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
Stockholders Pull
OcilIa Bank off Rocks

Vice president u >. Wilcox of
the Citizens Bank of Ocilla is conf
dent that the bank will reopen short
ly, as several of the directors and
stock holders of the bank have Of
fered to come to its financial assist
ance. The total shortage of the bank
has not yet been announced but it is
not to exceed $4,000, an amount that
can readily be raised among the
stockholders. 1t is expected that a
change of officers and directors will
be made i'll the event the bank is re-
opened.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
Twenty Tickets Awarded by
Judges For Time and Neat
ness in Solutions.
Winners Will Be Guests of Lead.
er-Enterprise at Perform
ance Tonight.

The Leader-Enterprise Polly Puz-
zle Contest" aroused veritable storm
of interest and the National Drug Co.,
was flooded with solutions to the puz-
zle Saturday. 1t was with considerable
difficulty that the Judges were able
to select the fourteen best ones from
the more than two hundred solutions
offered. Neatness in execution and
the time the solutions were filed at
the National were the two points on
which the judges based their prefer
ence.
Polly and Her Pals" appears for
the first time on the stage this year.
1t is dramatization of Cliff Ster-
rett's amusing cartoon strip in mer-
ropolitan newspapers. Reports from
towns where the performance has
been staged promise that it will be
the musical comedy hit of the season.
The prize winners in the Leader
Enterprise Polly Puzzle Contest who
will attend the performance tonight
as guests of the Leader Enterprise
are:
Winners of The Leader Enterprise
Polly Puzzle Contest
1st Prize Box Seat Tickets, Mrs.
J. T. Pittman.
End Prize Box Seat Tickets, Ly-
man Thurston.
3rd Prize 2 Box Seat Tickets, Mrs.
Asa Smith.
4th Prize l Box Seat Tickets, Miss
Ufa Turner.
5th Prize l Box Seat Tickets, Mr.. ].
B. Gift.
9th Prize l Box Seat Tickets, Miss
Hazel Mayes.
9TH Prize l Box Seat Tickets, Mr.. A.
R. Lincoln.
9th Prize, Box Seat Tickets, Rob-
ert Astin.
9th Prize, / Box Seat Tickets, Miss
Vessie Jones.
10th prize, / Box Seat Tickets, Miss
Katie Booker.
18th Prize Box Seat Tickets, Miss
Lillian Dorminey.
18th Prize l Box Seat Tickets, Mrs.
18th Prize / Box Seat Tickets, Will
bur Alberson.
EXTRA PRIZE FOR ORIGIN
Atty, James Thompson.
Best Self Rising Flour .........$ 1.55
Mrs. Robert E. Lee spent Friday in
Ocilla pleasantly with friends.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
Fitzgerald Furniture
Company Is Moving

The Fitzgerald Furniture Company,
J. Kassewitz, Manager, is removing
their stock of Furniture today from
100 w. Central Ave-, to their new To-
cation in the Odd Fellows Block. This
will give this firm one of the most
attractive stores in the city.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

FITZGERALD MAY GET
NEW INSURANCE RATES

Fire insurance appraisers will
probably make an inspection of
Fitzgerald this week for the pur-
pose of adjusting local insurance
rates, according to Mr.. J. B.
Seanor, secretary of local fire in
surance agents. Fire risks are !
said to be better in Fitzgerald than
when the present rate was fixed
and some reductions are antici-
pated
X X X ~ X \
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
MECHANICS BEING
LAID OFF AT SHOPS

One hundred and eleven additional
mechanics and helpers were given a
temporary lay-off at the A. B. & A.
Shops Saturday. 1t is thought that
the entire force will have to be put
back early in January, to maintain the
rolling stock of the Company.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
Committee Recommends CONTINUING
Community Service 3 Months Longer
Red Jones' Chickens
Win In Birmingham

Forty-one of forty-two of Mr.. R.
L. Jones prize chickens were awarded
places in the Southern poultry Associa-
TONS Birmingham show last week.
Mr.. Jones sent in his forty-two birds
to compete with a total of 1900 9TH
ers. Of eleven first places offered in
his class, Mr.. Jones took eleven. He
won grand display and award for the
five best birds of all classes.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
HENDERSON-GRIFFIN

The many friends here of Miss En-
lily Griffin and Mr.. Albert Henderson
will be interested to learn of their
marriage which occurred in Septenl-
Der. Miss Griffin spent her childhood
days in Fitzgerald and is the only
daughter of the late Mr.. T. J. Griffin
of Helena, Ga.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
RAIL SPREAD SPILLS
CARS AT r. R. SHOPS

Several freight cars are said to have
been derailed and capsized at the A..
B. A. Shops Sunday when the rails
on siding spread. Larry Swords
was running the locomotive. No Sc
rious injury resulted.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
A. B. & A. SHOWS GAIN
IN ITS GROSS EARNINGS

The Atlanta, Birmingham & Allan
tic Railway Company in its report is
used Saturday shows that gross earn
ings during October aggregated $528.
08o, or $72,875 in excess of returns
during the same month a year ago.
Net operating income during October
showed deficit Of $68,602, against
$1,000 the same month a year ago.
Earnings of the road during Octo-
Der and two months ending October
31st, last, follow:
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

Mrs. Marcus Luke is leaving this
week for Jacksonville, Fla, for few
days visit before going to Los Ange-
les, California, where she will make
her home.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

Mrs. IT. Feinberg and daughter re-
turned this mornirg from Albany,
where they have spent the past few
days on account OF the illness of the
formers mother.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13
BOX SUPPER

There will be Box Supper at the
Roanoke School House on Friday
night December 18th. Everyone cor
daily invited.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

Master Lawrence Manning spent
the weekend very pleasantly with
Master George Gaffney, in the coun-
try.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Blanton Cutler are
visitors in the city, the guests of DR..
and Mrs. H. A. Mathis.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

Miss Lucy Whitley has returned
home after delightful visit to rela-
tives and friends in Ocilla.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

OCTOBER 1918
Gross Earnings ------------$455,211
Deficit after taxes -----------$28, 1927
Net Op. income def. ---------$16, 399
OCTOBER 1920
Gross earnings -------------$528,086
Deficit after taxes --------$62, I'll
Net op. income, def ---------$68, 602
Two months, Sept. and Oct
SEPT. and OCT. 1919
Gross earnings -------------$936,035
Deficit after taxes 1880, 485
Net op. income, def. $3.50, 648
SEPT. and OCT. 1920
Gross earnings ------------$1 OPS, 282
Deficit after taxes ----------$201 ,687
Net op. income, def. $780, 1903
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-13

Mrs. w. c. Adams has returned to
her home in Panama City, Fla, after
a pleasant visit to Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Johnson on South Main St.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Percy Manning
were the guests of friends in Ocilla
Friday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07
DAMAGED 80
! PER CENT BY RAINS
FALL PASTURES ARE
REPORTED EXCELLENT I

Oklahoma City, Nov. 6-Most of
the winter wheat acreage in Okla
homa has been planted, according to
the weekly crop bulletin issued today
by the state board of agriculture
Normal acreage is reported and ad-
ditional plowing and sowing is under
way.
Damage to cotton by continued rains
Is placed at about so per cent in the
bulletin. That being picked now is
graded as low as midding. The bull
lctin estimates that in the southern
part of the state approximately 60
per cent of the crop has been picked
before the bad weather.
Kafir, milo and other grain sor-
ghums were damaged to various ex-
tents by the hard rains. In some
places, it is reported the crop is
being shocked too green as result
Of the bad weather.
FAN pastures are reported excel
lent. Farmtrs have an abundance
Of rOughage for the winter. Wheat
planted before the rainy weather is
now up enough for pasturage.
The sweet potato yield over the state
Is reported equal to last year when
Oklahoma raised 20 bushels more tc
the acre than the average for the
United States.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07

Entered Camp Travis as a buck pri-
vate without any rank and while still
in civilian clothes was placed on
special duty in the camp personnel
office. which was just being opened
at that time, October 1st 1917, by
William Clark, civilian expert employ
ment manager of the international
Harvester company. Serving there for
three months and finding that he had
no chance for advancement, not even
to attain that enviable rank of lance
corporal, he applied for entrance 20
che 3rd artillery officers training
camp and was accepted. He graduated
three months later, with recommends
ton for his commission In Field Ar
| tillery. However, Mr.. Clark seemed to
have kept his eye on Sergeant Rims
land, and instead of being commits
stoned in Field Artillery he was sent
to Il personnel officers school. gradu-
ating and being commissioner 1st
Lieutenant, adjutant general depart
ment, the only member of the Third
Officers Training Camp at Camp Ira
viz receiving a 1st lieutenants com
mission and the only one promoted to
the office in the adjutant general de-
partment. Immediately after receiv-
ing his commission he was placed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07
Price Concessions for the M


YOU NS HAVE THE SMY @ 9n Buy
SOUAR
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07
.AW A RD S FOR ESSAYS.
BY SCHOOL STUDENTS 81

Two first and two second prizes
will be presented to the students whose
articles on "Americanization" WERE,
given first and second places respee-;
lively. The medals for the first prizS
arc gold pins of suitable design, enc
graved with the words first prize"
and the date, 1920" The design INF
dicates that the prize was awarded
for some essay or theme ana the
wearer will have the pleasure OF
explaining Just what the subject was.
The second prizes are Of silver in
the same design as the first. and
engraved the same. Medals will not
nc presented to the writer's OF the
articles which took third place, but
the articles were considered good
enough for publication. The presen-
tation ceremony will be had at date
to be announced later.
High school:
First-Helen Hurley.
Second-Vivian Mccullough.
Third-Lyndell Hudson.
! Grade schools:
| First-Vinita Mccullough.
Second-Gayle Wilkinson.
Third-Edna Holiday
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07

Regular 500 Suit Overcoa (Boys $50
Regular ZOO Suit Overcoat (Boys 400
Regular $50 Suit Overcoat (Boys for-------S 595
Regular $500 Suit Overcoat for only S105O
Regular $4,000 Suit Overcoat for only S1400
Regular $500 Suit Overcoat for only Sl75O
Regular $4,000 Suit Overcoat for only $500
Regular $4,000 Suit Overcoat for only $4,000
Regular $4,000 Suit Overcoat for only------- $500
Regular $4,000 Suit Overcoat for only----- $1,000
ETC, ETC. \
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07

Anderson Post No. 50. The American
Legion. In September Mr.. Fell was
elected commander of The Departme
of Oklahoma and resigned the COM
membership Of the local post in order
to be able to devote his attention to
OF this issue will be found his ex-
planation of what The American
Legion is. what it has accomplished
and what it hopes to accomplish in
the future.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07
FINAL RETURNS GARFIELD
COUNTY SHOWS HARDING'S
AND HARRELD'S MAJORITY

Enid, Okla, Nov. with all pre-
cincts tabulated, and finally given
out by the county election board this
morning. Garfield county gave Sena-
tor Harding a majority Of 1857, and
j. w. Harreld, 2,6S6.
The figures are:
For president. Republican electors,
$685. Democratic, 3,6lS.
For United States senator, Scott
Ferris, (DemocraD 379S; John w.
Harreld (Republican) 6,4S4.
For congress, eighth district Zack
A. Harris (DemocraU 1855; Manuel
Herrick (Rcpublican) j,932.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07
CHRISTIANITY Is WEIGHED
IN BALANCE DEACON STATES

Madison, Nov. 6.--Declarlng that in
defeating proponents Of the league
o. naricns at Tuesdays election, the
church goers permitted "the spirit
CT hatred, prejudice and selfishness
to outweigh the responsible spirit Of
living" j. w. Hicks, deacon in the
Plymouth Congregational church, to-
Gag publicly asked that his name be
stricken from the rolls Of the church.
He declared that christianity as
taught, had been weighed in the ball
ance and found wanting"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07

In charge OF the personnel office at
camp Travis, being head of the office
in which he four months before had
been an ordinary buck private.
Lieutenant Rinsland held this Of
flee until after the Armistice was
aligned during which time he was
sent to New York and Washington
for expert service in trade testing,
His office at Camp Travis received
every man who entered that camp,
examined his educational. vocational
and intellectual ability and then upon
orders from him the adiutant general
placed these men where they would
he of greatest service in the army.
When Lieutenant Rinsland was dis
charged from Camp Travis May 80,
1919, he was adjutant of demobiliza-
tion.
At present Mr. Rinsland is director
of research and guidance Of the Ard
more schools. being the only man in
tho southwest i'm this phase OF educa-
t1oTal work. His work here is t'e-
cciving attention in many sections
cr the country lie is considered an
authority on educational and Intcl-
ligence tests and scientific investiGa'
ton of school work, and is often
called to deliver lectures before teach
ers' associations, Normal schools and
colleges.
Mr.. Rinsland is an active 'citizen
on this city, being a member OF the
Chamber of Commerce, Rotary clut
and president of the Court of Honor
of the Boy Scouts. He is member OF
the Kappa Delta Pi the National Hon
orary Educational Fraternity, and q
number of other educational societie:
and associations.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07
SQVIETS USE f CHIT
DIVISIONS A GAIN ST
v RAN GEL IN RUSSIA

Scbastol Nov. 6.-(By the Asso-
ciatcd Prcss) Eight divisions Of in
fantry and General Budcnny's cav
rlda These troops. advancing from
attack of which broke the strength
Of Baron Wrangels forces in Tau
rida. These rtoops. advancing from
Nikopol. on oct. 81, attacked both
wings Of the anti-bolshevih army.
Ten thousand Of General Buddeny's s
men swept southwark as far as sal
kovo, where General Wrangel's coun
ter attack resulted in their surrender
Five columns of superior soviet forces
however, CONTINUED TO advance in AL
directions along the 200 mile front
and General Wrangel was forced tt
retreat He was successful in with
drawing his men, horses and supplies
into the Crimean Peninsula
General Wrangels troops, aftel
their victories on November !, anC
Nov. 9, and before their withdrawal
| are said to have shot hundreds o
prisoner Jewish bolsheviki commissar
| les, as well as IIungarians, Ruman
| ians, Chinese and Germans.
Following the total route Of tn
! boshevih on Nov. 3, General Wran
gel slowly withdrew his line towar'
the Salkovo railway, where it unite
with units which had been holding
the soviet forces below Melitopo
These units took from the bolshevib
20 cannon. large number of ma
chine guns and many prisoners
explanation of his retirement, Genera
Wrangel said:
an view of the absolute superiorit
of the enemy's numbers. which allow
ed the bolsheviki to replace their loss
es, it was decided to withdraw
Crimea. Our troops are tired bt
their spirits are good. The retret
was conducted without pressure froi
the enemy"