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PAGE TWO “STATE CONCLUDES N LAWHORN CASE {1 | — : 'rm}m July 18.—The case agmnst Simms Lawhorn, charged with the murder «f 8. 8. Mouk, was taken up Wednc way morning in Tift guperior ‘(ourt, Jimms aged about 22, and his brother Floyd, aged #O, were jomntly “ndicted for the murder, but the stale 9}9?&*{l to try Simms first, A jury was secured with little difiiculty and taking f avidence hegan ahout 10 oo*:lack. The state reasted before noop and FPloyd Lawhorn went on the stato for the defence. The afterncon was consumed in evidence for the defence and in testimony and rebuttal. The Lawhorns were tenants on (he farm of B.°B. Monk about a mile north of Wifton, Bitter feelings aroco be sween Mr Moak and his tenants a 3 an outcome of which three woere put under arrest, Mr Monk was killed on the morning of June 13, being alone | with the two Lawhorn Loys near t'-,“ field where they were at work, Flovd Lawhorn claing: that Mr Monk, who wae sgeventy years of age, came np W where they were plowing out pea puts and had stopprod near the road! to get a drink of water, and accerting | tha. he had come to seltle their troubl diew a piztol and fired ¢ Simms, Who | returned the fire killing Mr Monk in-‘ stantly. The eitate claims that Mr' Monk had no pistol and that he wn.s: passing aiong the public road on his way t. another piece of his pl‘h))“l‘!_’v‘; where he was having work done, when ' the killing took place, The defendrat ' sta ement was the lagt thing Wednes | day night. The case will not g£p ) the jury untii some timé Thursday. S — ._..(rj et - e T EIGHTY TWO YEAR 01D | MAN DENIED DIVORCE : FROM WIFE, AGt SEVENTYI Savannah Ga., July 13- Zary Stokes : 82, was denled a divorce by a Jury today from his 70 year ¢ld wite ' The case was a hard fought one. Stokes claimed decertion for the p'uv-.t,: thiee years. They have been married : ten years. The old conple were bhifter against cach other, the wife l'(_‘ll.’ll‘illg! that Zary told a hundred and one lies on the witness stand. l — o o r———— l’.: e 1' RICH GOLD STRIKE IS | IN COLORADO MINE Calorado Springs Col. July 15, —#iold ore that will gasay ag high as +70.000 a tonm has been watruck in the 2,600 foot level of the Poviland mine Victor, Cole, accarding (o Joseph W, Ady, Jr., managing dircctor of the Portiand Cald Mining company. who returned here toaight with thp news of onte of the hiwgast wtrikes mude in Jhe Cripple Creck distriet in yoars, e ore hae beun fownd In two str of a rich 4 fost ven, 1 and 4 inehos in width, respectively according to Ady,, A NEW LUNCH ROOM Wednvite vou to come down and take one meal with us today, tomorrow, any time—just so we an show vou how mueh we appreciate you as a anstonmer—and also to show you what a good serv tee we will render for youir money. Cordele Lunch Room Corner Eighth Street and Twelfth Avenue At Last Cordele Has a Harness And Leather Manufacturing Plant That i 3 capable of taking care of your wants, We make any thing the horse wears; we repadr anything made in leather: we work the best skilied labor, OQur prices ave reasonable A manutacturing f|'l.|n‘t and repair shop ac our factory. Har. ness retail department handled by B, 8. Ambrose and Jdi W Wolf and other leading stores, Bay nothing in this line but Watson's Lhome manufactured goods from home products—the hest what {s, S, M. Watson & Company, Inc. TANNERS AND MANUFACTURERS CORDELE. GLEORGIA . ® Foundry And Mill Supplies . 'The business. of making heavy steel and castings and botler and enging repairs has been redueed to a sound business proposi tion in our shops. 'We furnish pipe firtings, shaftings, belting, pulleys. Consult us on any machinery you want to place. We ean help yvou avoid mistakes. : ® . e Tomlin-Harris Machine Co. CORDPELE, GEORGIA. : G R AND P IS SEEKING SUMMERVILLE FRANCHISE ¢ AR | Summerville, July 13,-~A represen tative of the Georgian' Ruilway fl‘ld Power company appeared beivie e city council Monday night and flskod] l“'”' a franchise in Summerville, it being planned to extend the trang 'mission lines from Lindale to |lm| r"]‘«ustm-u line at a poit near Chick amanga, ‘ It iy not the intention of the power company b s stated, to ae.ail pnwm" i Gummerviile, Hut €o gell it at whoke gale to ho prezent owncrs of the Sam: mory/lle Co.tan Mitls ,which furnish lip,m/ and power ty the city from ns piant in South Summerville o {The ¢iy couneil took the matler nuder congideration, o st e e | o e e v TIFT COURT SPENDS TWO DAYS ON SADDLE THEFT CASE e I Tifton Ga., July 13.—The question ¢ «he theft of a saddie, perhaps not over $lO in value occupied a jury f tw day:: In TiHt Superior conrs e+ % week, It wag the first icase ried betore the jury whn the second week con vened Moenday and appeared to lu:‘ ‘.«.iulplle enough, A young white man giving his name ag Bill Peppers, was charged with stealihg a saddle from Preston Whaley. Whaley died since the alleged theft, "T'he jury was ogt two days and bang hopelessly (dis agreed, Judge Eve, despite his disliks of mis.rialg, was oblilped to declaren ane and let them go, In the nm:n‘.ivimr-,'i Pepper had been acquitied by a trial juries in two cases charging him with' : arrying a pistol, ' FARMERS ARE BECOMING | INTERESTED IN POULTRY, ALSO IMPROVING FLOCKS] 22 v e’ | Juliete, Ga., July 13.—80 suczesstul was Monroe county's fix'.:‘;( (-u-opnm-i Jive chicken sale, that arrangements are being made for another sale in the near future. | This sale proved that this is an ideal section for poultry raising and that the industry can bhe made profi table. The sale netted the farmers $682.24. and the poultry was bought by Risser Bros., of Philadelphia, Farmers of the county are enthus iastic over the poultry industry and most of them are disposing of their scrub stock and buying purebred va vieiies and, it is Dbelieved, Monroe county will soon develop into one of the leading poultry producing sections of the state, ‘ sse s R 1 TURK GOVERNMENT MAKES BIG SLASH IN ITS PAY ROLL Constantinople, July . 412, ——'Tw«-nt_\‘l thousand government employees, in-} cluding ministers, school teachers, and high dignitaries of state, :u't'} hard hit by the governments new ceonomy seheme, : PMifty ner cent of the employees are :li-wh:u';z«-.i others reeeive twe vears leave of absence, while those in copviee more than thirty yoars arc tived. The expense allowed scnators i reduced from $5OO to $3OO ‘CHA’I"I‘O()fiU; IMPQOVESSVS’EEM PUBLIC ROAD JER s Summetville, Gu., July 13~ (:lJu tooga county's link in the Georgla- Alabama highway, trom Summerville 10 Cloudland, was completed Mone day, and the county chiingang caung, together with the crew sent out by the state highway department, was moved to Lyerly Tuesday. The road from Lyerly to the Al bama state line, a distance of ahout ‘lh miles, witl be put in first-class condition as rapidly as possible, Tae road is on a direct route to Birming "ham, passing through Gayleavilly, Crntre and Gadsden, The road to Cloudland, just becn completed, opens a new territory to this section, and a star mail routo, recently established, afords 2 daliy mail service to the people of Look out Mountain, The route up the mountain is an cxceptionally fine .picee of work and the engineering is ‘Geclared perfect, . - 'l'he state highway department co-l operated with the county chaingang! in Building the road, GOE TR SCUTHERN PUBLISHER TELLS OF FIGHT AGAINST SHIP BARS Asheville, N. C., July. 13 —F'req2r ick L Thompson, member-ot the ship ping board and pablisher of the Mo bile, Ala, Register, speaking at tie convention here of the Soutlorn Newspepers Puldishers’ assoclation, said that he alone of the eight mem bers of the board, tok an open aud positive stand in opposition to the selling of liquor aboard vessels ol | the board when the mater wags up for determination, His statement was zarected with ap plause from members of the associa tion. ] Frederick W. Hume, execuijve see: retory of the National Publishers as sociation, declared in an address that! present postal rates on second (:]m;.-:‘ matter virtually amounted to a cen morship upon the press, Tle ontlined: features of the “pending Kelly hill to reduce such rates, ; il a 2 f - WIRE FENCE - RA6%KG Gool: Wios .oo 2. 3081 lti 108950 GOOO Wih.: oonooovesoans 30 1438 NBO%O Goad Wik .o oo A 1 A 14Ex0: QOOO Wt .. eil 46 B 1748x8, Poultry oo loi oo A4B %G TORONE, Polttny .= i s Rl 4 pt. Galvid Barhy oo i o iabl 4 pt. Galv, 8 Barb __-__-__-___“,3.7G| o ot Qalv. 4 Barbt. .2l a 0 200 Delivered in 400 pounds lots, ’ GEO. D. MASHBURN i HAWKINSVILLE, GA. THE NEWEST CREATIONS ' 3 ? s : ' ¥ | : ¢ | : : o fivy [ : Lovely Bon Bons, Olive ‘: ' = 1 : Trays, IHandled Baskets, 4 ] 2 i : Comports, Tea Sets, ete, : | iri ] ; fmported Tand Painted : : \ L : China. Shipment just re- : ' ' : : coived. See it before it 1s | , : f picked over. LE = : 1 - WAIT & HOLMES HARDWARE CO. : ; THE HOUSE OF QUALITY AND SERVICE | 'PHONE No. 9 CORDELE, GA | ’/ %e e A Imh RN L q“l l"._j ‘r‘“‘l‘? 'l Rl\ 'H'wl“tfl!: 'l\:. 1 't'-'“ { \»h l H[hfi’“]”m BIF kg ey iy =l e R i L -%fi‘i}"f—g ‘{; »“ih Ll ;in , _@ S, =ks E’ _;‘“";; fl__::—w»‘_\ {,l ¥/ i =ll l‘m L’_ - ‘lj oET ! %;\‘. i ‘iij“ j h | LR 7 =T i {lii)&/,// \QE\: | 17;//// | ' 0 ing H. F. Corbett, P!umb : -vthing in the Plumbing Lipe. ~ And Every PHONE 375 R 124 Ninth Avenue S L THE CORDELE DISPATCH _ - AFTER LONG FICHT —— Allanta, Ga., July 13,—~The Wom. ble bhill to repeal the tax equaliza tion law was lost in the State Sen ate today when it failed to rceeive the necessary twenty-six votes, Abgontees at the time the bill wae on passag: in the house sony yonrs ago endangercd the passage of the bill and, it is reealled, a hury trip in a hack had to bhe cmployed to driil un one member neccesary ‘te bring the bill to passing point, Ah gentees today saved the law from red peal and lost the bhill which sought to remenl it, though the presiding of ficor-put himself on record as favor: ing the repeal and at the same time declarcd himself in faver of the adoy tion of & luxury tax, a soft drink tax and anv form of taxation that wil roeh invisible property, but opposcd to the so-called oqualization law. The record vote when the roll wa completed <tocd 25 for the repeal of the lnw, 20 against it. It requires a vote of 26 to pass the bill, Three Skip Out When the fixed hour arrived rule 100 of the Senate was invoked which yequives the prosiding officer to eal in all snators lock the doors and permit no members to leave without consent of the senate. That = was done ‘bat bofore the order was made o feetive two or threc of the senators quietly left the chamber and were not present when the vote was heing takem on the bill, CAMFAIGN AGAINST LITTLE RATTLING WOODEN BKIDGE Moultrie, July 13—The county com l“\ir;:-:immrs of Colquitt county have started o campaizn to eradicate he little rattling wooden bridge. They have plans laid out to replace each wooden bridge in thé county with one of stedl and concrete constructit‘)il before the end of this year. l‘u.md money is being used to do the worlk and they have employed an engineer who is superintending it Thag claim the work is begg done much cheaper by the county than they would have been able to get it done; by contract. ‘ 2 ok T. L. LAMAR General Butlder - and Superintend. ent of Construction | Fine Carpenter Work, Remodeling ) Repairing, Roofing, Etc. 'Have Experienced White Work." men do Your Work, e Box 37 Cordele, Ga. - R ee ot 4(o v S Eaa— e Mo, SRS | o ‘-‘7; ia7G SO DAY OGP PO e | e A e “;:L BTN : Bt EEN TLleit ek s R U L s % o (SRRI | ettt by, e IA, RSO | bt | ACHANTIEOREIN ol Vo, RGN eN | e 4)T oG LT NSRS e oao A‘; ] N R A NEATEEE f i 8" ‘*‘3}';"6( ""v.‘f" ::: :W *.;" OGN ':. L. ..l' X - gt Ly o R W mi e e 7 B | gAY Sk ,wnt)“.”{ 4 \\‘ ‘fi[ 3 Vg W |"‘ e A " ° ‘-‘\‘ 4_{’-, YA 1 ORI e ! A ‘,!'.-x:fi = £ B Ast N v,u:s‘*z;//' : M{-m‘ G o f AT /1= e A ’“" SR AR R ke ) iy / ;éia, Q\EE: b 0 aadia TR ‘ 4]@l3\\‘ (RN Pe d f,« Ve AN e 4‘- =gl NNI o T TAte R sk Al === PR B C pie i N ' AEROLUX et o | ¥ 4 \ : i VN o] 15 SA\ | AAEROLUX, iot VENTILATING Rl l Porch Shades R Aerolux Shades Are Famous For the Comfort They Add to Porches They add addan extra room (o your home, where you are pro teeted against the heat and glare of the sun (as well as the paze of inguisitive eyes) and where you may still have the cool, re freshing out-of-doovs with all that it means in the way of better air, better rest and gieater comfort. The usctulness, enjoyinent and appearance of an open porch are increased many times overr by he use of these attractive and de pendable shades. Just the shade for Sun Parlors and Sleeping Porches. - Equipped With ‘‘“Hang-Easy’’ ' - and Adjustable “‘No-Whips”’ With thepatented “ITang-Easy’ fixtures these shades are easily hung or removed—and when you hang them you will not have to search for tools, nails or screws. Adjustable “NoWhip” cords prevent all whipping in the wind. : Very artistie, duvable, inexpensive. In cool green col ors. All sizes from 4 x 7 1-2 feet at $4.00 to 12 feet by 6 1-2 feet at $14.00 J M. WITHERINGTON CORDEIE, GEORGIA 2 BT, ¢ Mm‘e ' afim eac ants 7 W Ae S ‘\— o fi;r‘* ‘:{:? L e y & .fi% Q"'{,.g‘? l" t'} f pis! K 2 N i ; ot ff%?, "é\ B | wEdy NS dl /87 o£k ' AN 7 -y vf}t‘ e IA7 5 ! ALt M 3 gfi‘- e e PNTA N T ‘.-"&% / &7/ b R A ‘. ¥io Bt i“&* ./v s YR R fii? 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S S These Palm Beach Pants, $3 98 Y 3 2 ) ' The ipir s SRR ELE Sa ol dL B it B We have Pin Cheeked Pents, good quality, pateh 9:8 pockiets, thHe pair " . ...l > Pin Check Pants, made like dress pants, well tailored $1 1 9 : . %, | SDA e e e, Ll | See these before you buy. We can well risk the gegg'syntli: you. - EWIS laompson 6 " THE STORE OF TODAY AND TOMORROW B CORDELE, GEORGIA : '.THURSDAY JULY 18th, 19'