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THE LAGRANGE REPORTER.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. 30, 1914^
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Italy liiKt yi'ur luniim-i-il i. “
pnllniiM of grain- w I lit *
Chicago 'n ill *mn in- i»r*'iin(li'd b>
a nmiii'li (nail M.vstom.
Vtutor tt now l'lillU|t|ilno law no pDy-
•U'ltiu nitty own n pharmacy.
Em it your u million dollar*' worth
of hiirsoM tilt* In Now York.
Tokyo's population Is 2.038.000, an
Increase of 410.000 slnoo llktt).
Now- York Is I<> Ini VO n 120.000,000
group of ntnsouins of peaceful nrts.
Of tlio world’s corn production 74.2
per cent Is (frown In the United Staten.
HwlUorlii lid's n n nun I production of
chocolate amounts to ubout $15,000,000
a year.
East St. I soils has ii curfew law re-
i|ulrlinc all children to ho off the streets
after 0 p. in.
Australia will this year irroutly ex
tend Its government telegraph and tele
phone service.
A windmill In England furnishes
electric Halil for a church and rectory
and power to Mow a church organ.
Rural carriers are now required to
report forest Ores throughout the
United Slates to proper authorities.
In eo opera lion with the weather bu
reau forest rangers are to measure
snow depths In the western mountains.
The Terra Nova, which look the Scott
expedition to the south pole, linn been
returned to the north Atlantic whullng
service.
Fashionable women In I/imton are
now carrying lilnck handkerchiefs
with their Initials embroidered In the
corners.
Two Austrian engineers linve Invent
ed a process for casting false teeth In
metal by which the necessary uniform
density Is obtained.
Eleven surveying partlea will lie sent
out this year by the United States geo
logical survey to Investigate the min
eral resources of Alaska. . '
Small farms are the rule in Japan,
and every foot of land Is put to use.
Tlio farmer who lias moru than ton
acres Is considered a monopolist.
Oxford university will send out an
expedition of English scientists, with a
Polish girl for a guide, to study the
origin of the native tiiheS|0f Siberia.
Culm 1h spending $1,800,000 In con
structing 2,000 houses for workmen to
cost $050 each. The workers would
become owners by paying a small
monthly rent.
Spectacles with white spots In the
centers of lilnck disks on the lenses
have been Invented by an English doc
tor to cure Insomnia by Inducing drow
siness In a wearer.
In the Malay peninsula an English
naturalist has discovered a species of
ant that makes Its nest In tlio fleshy
stems of ferns that grow on the limbs
of trees high In the air.
The Chinese government, which
owns the country’s telegraph system,
has extended It until more than 8(1,000
miles of land lines and about 1,000
miles of euliles are now In use.
Count Tolstoy’s secretary says that
the great writer’s library numbered
10,000 volumes In tlilrty-two languages.
There were almost as many books In
English as In Russian 8,-110 against
3,505.
The Invention of a machine to grind
sea sand, tlio particles of which ordi
narily are too smooth to be of use, lms
enabled great masses of It along the
Virginia coast to be utilized In brick
manufacture.
Women of the Portuguese province
of Mozambique, In Africa, make a
white cosmetic by grinding a certain
kind of wood la water. They assert tt
removes wrinkles and prevents erup
tive blemishes.
French bankers, aroused by many
recent robberies, have adopted steel
clad motors for conveying bullion, cur
rency and other valuables through tlio
streets of Parts, as well as distributing
money to outlying banks.
Professor Dudley A. Sargent of
Harvard, physical director, says that
ordinary dancing, as an exercise, does
not compare favorably with rowing,
swimming and many other forms of
gymnastics and athletics.
Mrs. Winchester, u councilor's wlfo
In Worthing. England, who died on
Monday, April 20, was born on a Mon
day, christened on a Monday and mar
ried on a Monday. Before she was
married her name was Monday.
French scientists have adopted the
word ■•frlgory,” meaning the amount
of cold neecs-urv to reduce the temper
ature of a kilogram of water one do
give C as a unit of measurement for
refrigerating and allied Industries.
The Pniverslty of Wisconsin regi
mental band expects to make a con
cert tour to the Pnettle coast during
31)15. probably appearing at the Pan-
anui-Pacitlc and the Panama-Callfomln
expositions at San Francisco and Sau
Diego
American physicians who think ot
practicing medicine in Egypt are warn
ed through consular advices that the
khedive's government will henceforth
require a license, and licenses will be
granted only to graduates of recognized
colleges.
Sir Thomas P. Whittaker, M. P., la
responsible for the statement that If
as much liquor |>er capita had been
consumed Inst year as In 1S74 In Great
Britain the national drink bill would
have been £$0,000,000 greater than It
actually was.
A social progress Item emanates from
(Stockholm, where, we are told, a chem
ical method will hereafter be applied.
In case a mao under arrest denies that
he Is drunk, to determine the amount
of alcohol In his system. Intoxicat
ing liquors and Intoxicated persona
will both be a matter of par cast
ToJ Appear in
This City Again
There are 170 college-* in British In
la.
Egypt and Sweden now hove women 1
Judges.
Over 13,000 persons are training for
leaching in Indlu,
Cincinnati hns annexed the suburb
of Rensselaer l’ark.
Most of the typo used by Chinese
printers Is made In Japan.
Cleveland has appointed a woman
police officer to patrol parks.
In Tusmnnlu dentists are forbidden
by law from any form of advertising.
Ceylon Is endeavoring to produce
enough sugar for home consumption.
Chicago will employ prisoners In
house of correction at broom making,
etc.
Pittsburgh prohibits acceptance or
use of basebnll passes by city employ
MS.
Philadelphia now has a church build
lug In which four sects unite In serv
ices.
Hungary's Insane are said to be sad
ly neglected In badly conducted asy
lums. •
Atlanta will give women places on
Its (link, library, health and school
hoa ids.
Baltimore Is preparing to hold noxi
September a "Star Spangled Banner"
centennial.
Sixty million tons of cool were need
ed to supply the world's consumption
of gas last year,
The governments of Italy. Belgium
anil Uruguay have officially udopted
twenty four hour time.
In the past ten years (lie world's out
put of new securities lias reached a
total of over $:l.'i.<X)U.000.iXK).
Nashville. Tcnu., Is enforcing the
rule requiring pedestrians to cross
streets at crosswalk points only.
The Westminster Men's Society For
Women's Rights of London publishes a
weekly paper called the Eyeopcuer.
Missouri Is now ho well settled that
less than ti thousand acres of govern
intuit land remain open to settlement
The moving picture establishments
of Pittsburgh have been asked to con
tribute to tlio warfare against the
white plague.
, German scientists lihve made a fuel
with two-thlnls the heating value ot
coal from sudd, the refuse vegetable
mutter of the river Nile.
The chief enemies of cyclists In In
din are the mosquitoes, which not only
hi to their limbs and bodies, but acta
ully bite through the tires.
In u Loudon church tower there Is a
clock which strikes the hours and
quarters, but bus no dials nor other
visible evidences of the time.
The Hist electric plant within the
arctic circle will ho erected at a mis
sion'at Point Hope, Alaska, the power
being supplied by n windmill.
By tlio construction of a harbor at
the mouth of the Murray river south
ern Australia may he given u port
rivaling Sydney In Importance.
SwitKerlitml's embroidery trade suf
fered a loss of nearly $2,000,000 feist
year because of fashion’s decree that
soft, clinging materials shall lie worn.
Curl Schmidt, found III In a fifteen
cent lodglug house In New York the
other night, was discovered to have
$50,000 concealed in Ids ragged cloth
ing.
Mrs. Elisabeth C. Vincent, who re
cently died nt Cincinnati, bequeathed
$440 to her friend Oliver W. Norton
"to be expended for the best cigars lie
can buy.”
An autograph love letter of King
Henry VIII to the unfortunate Anne
Bnloyn, Henry's second wife, has been
found in the Vatican library. It ts In
Fron-di.
Good oak trunk logs are so much In
demand In the Spessart region, Ger
many, that some line trunks have sold
for over $1114 per thousand foot board
measure.
To prove that a parachute of Ids In
vention was an Improvement over for
mer types a Frenchman dropped a
thousand feet from an aeroplane with
i one and landed safely.
! To hasten the mending of badly
fractured bones an English surgeon
has Invented n system of screws to
pass through the pieces of bone mid
nuts to press them Into position.
Two girls In Budapest who had de
cided to tight a duel over a young man
with whom both wore in love have
settled the matter by becoming en
gaged to the two men who volunteered
to net as their seconds.
State monopolies and undertakings
In Japan yield an annual revenue of
about $(14,000,000, of which $23,000,000
comes from posts, telegraphs and tele
phones, $25,000,000 profits from tobac
co, $5,000,000 from salt anil $5,000,000
from forests.
Tlio Japanese vegetable ado Is be
coming rapidly acclimatised la this
country. The department of agricul
ture has Issued a pamphlet of fifteen
pages giving the results of experi
ments In raising udo, together with
methods of cultivation and cooking.
Rabbits which had been inoculated
with the virus of rabies, tuberculosis,
typhoid and other fearful diseases
were stolen from the lalioratory of a
Marseilles bacteriologist one night re
cently. A desperate effort was made
to recover the animals before they
were sold.
A treaty dated 1707, sanctioned by
the sennte and signed by the president,
giving the Indians perpetual rights to
fish and hunt In Eighteen Mile creek,
near Buffalo, vraa successfully used by
three Seneca Indians in the supreme
court as a defense against the charge
that they were Illegally fishing than.
MISS GIJSSIE EDDISON.
Miss (iussie Eddison, the popular
fnvoritc among the theatre going
public of this city will be here all
next week, with The Starnes Stock
Company. Miss Eddison as you re
member made a great hit here while
with the C. W. Park Dramatic Com
pany. The wonderful impresMon she
made while in this town, during oth
er engagements has made her many
friends and it is commonly believed
she will have all her old admirers out
next week to see her and hear her
sing. Another big feature of the
show Monday night, and Monday
night only, will be the singing of Vic-
tir Canares who was at one time with
the Manhattan Opera Company,
which scored such great success in
Atlanta and the South.
Have You Twelve Friends?
Each one of them would like your photo for Christmas.
You could not give them a more appropriate present,
or one that would be more appreciated.
A dozen high grade photos, splendidly mounted in the
latest style, for $3.00 to $12.00.
Arrange for your sitting now and we will have more
time|in which to give you the best in photographic art.
Davis & Fowler Studio
13 Church Street
Hammetts; Have
Family Reunion
A most enjoyable family reunion
was held last Sunday, October the
24th, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
.1. W. Hammett in Harrisonville. The
occasion marks the first time in fif
teen years that Mr. Hammett and all
of his children—excepting one, Mr.
Charles Hammett, of Memphis, Tenn.
—had had the pleasure of meeting to
gether around the family fireside,
there to recall the happy days of
childhood and youth.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. Blake, of Memphis, Tenn.; Mr.
und Mrs. A. C. Hunter and children,
of Chipley; Mr. und Mrs. J. P. Ham
mett, and children of LaGrange; Mr.
and Mrs. M, O. Owens, and little son,
of Aiken, S. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Thos.
| M. Smith, of LaGrange; Mr. Hilt
! Hammett, of the Atlanta Medical
College; and Mr. J. I). Hammett, of
Harrisonville.
Death of \V. B. Turner.
Mrs.Simril Returns
to LaGrange
We are sorry to note the death or
Mr. William B. Turner, although it
was not a surprise/to a great many
of us, ns he had been sick for some
time. He had been in feeble health
for two years and was confined to . , „ t „„
his bed for two months before he I he many fnends of Mrs. L. M.
died He is survived by his wife and Simril are pleased to learn that she
three sons, Mr. Hardy Turner, at b«» recovered from her operation and
Unity and Messrs. James und Warren j is now in LaGrange again
Turner at the LaGrange Mill, and j She toft the hospital in Atlanta last
Mrs. Jessie D. Hearn of this city. I week and cumc directly to her home
Me was a brother to Mr. John ’Pur- ' n this city,
ncr of Greenville, Ga., and Mr. Green
Turner of Woodbury, Gn.
He was nearly sixt.y-throe years of
age at the time of his death. He was |
married to Miss Sally Marchman and
hnd been a consistent member of the [
Methodist church for a number of
yenrs.
Rev. C. Wurdlaw conducted the
funeral services after Mr. Frank
Adams had givAn a history of his
past life.
Our sympathy goes out to the be
reaved family in their affliction. His
dying testimony was a great consola
tion to his family in that he said he
was prepared to go and not afraid
to die. Dear ones he resigned to the
Divine Will, your loss is his eternal
gain.
MRS. N. G. SWAN.
Death of Leonard Dukes.
Little Leonard Dukes, the five-year-
•old son of Mr. and Mrs. Manley
Dukes died of fever. God saw lit to
remove this little (lower from this
earth to the paradise above. We ex
tend our heartfelt sympathy to the
bereaved ones. May God comfort and
bless them.
Change ot Motivo.
When wc were limn,-, m (hiya of yore
And life was full of miss
My wife would min t me nt the door
To greet me with u hiss
We've married been of years a s.-oia
My wife Is lather neat. •
Anil now she meets me nt the door
To make me wipe my feet.
— Kansas City Journal.
THE BLARNEY.
Oh, did you ne'er bear of the
lllarucy
That’s found uoag the banks of
KUlaruc.v?
Bolirvo it from me.
No ;_ln's heart is free
Ouce aUc hoars the sweet sound
of win- Blarney.
The Blarney’s so groat a de
ceiver ■
That a girl thinks you’re there
though you leave her;
And she never finds out
All the tricks you’re about
Till she's quite gone herself with
your blarney.
Oh. say, would you" find this
same Blarney?-
There's a castle not far from
Kills rney.
On top of its wall
(But take care you don’t fall)
There's a stone that contains all
this blarney.
Like a magnet. Us Influence
> such is.
That attraction It gives alt It
touches;
If you kiss tt, they say.
That from that blessed day
You may kiss wbom you please
with your blarney!
-Samuel Lover.
SAGES ON DESTINY.
Art aud [lower will go oii as
they have dime will make day
out of night, time out of space
and apace out of time.—Emer
son.
That each tiling, both In small
and In grout, flllfilletb the task
which destiny hath set down.—
Hlppocratea.
Take life too seriously aud
what Is it worth? If the morning
wake us up to no new Joys. IT
the evening bring us not the
hope of new pleasure, Is tt
worth while to dress and un
dress? Does the sun shine on
me today that I may reflect on
yesterday? That 1 may endeav
or to foresee and to control wlint
can neither be foreseen niir con
trolled the destiny of tomor
row?—Goethe.
Box Supper
Given Friday
There will be a box supper given at
East Vernon school building, Friday
evening, Oct. 30, for the benefit of
the school.
There will be other amusements.
Come at eight o’clock, sharp.
Hallowe’en Party
Next Saturday
There will be a hallo'we’en party
given at Mrs. Lula Johnson’s at
Harrisonville, October 31 for the
benefit of the Mfthodist church at
Asbury. ’Possum and potatoes with
hot coffee will be the refreshments.
Small Fire Last
Saturday Night
From unknown causes, a bale of
cotton caught on fire Saturday night
about eleven o’clock ut the Troup
county warehouse. The automatic
sprinkle system always kept in per
fect order worked like a charm and
the fire was, out in less than five
minutes, scorching only about 100
pounds of lint cotton.
The fire equipment of the ware
houses in LaGrange work while you
sleep and a3 long as Blue John and
Ixing Cane run, a cotton fire has ab
solutely no show.
IF YOUR BUSINESS IS NOT
WORTH ADVERTISING, ADVER
TISE IT FOR SALE... .
GROCERIES
ALL FRESH
CLOSE PRICES
ON NEXT MONDAY MESSRS. J. M. JOHNSON AND
EUGENE SPEARMAN WILL OPEN UP A NEW GROC
ERY BUSINESS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MEAT
MARKET THAT IS NOW OPERATED BY MR. JOHNSON
ON MAIN STREET. AN ENTIRELY NEW LINE OF
GROCERIES WILL BE PLACED AND AT ALL TIMES
ONLY THE VERY BEST AND FRESHEST PRODUCTS
WILL BE SOLD AT CLOSE PRICES. THIS GROCERY
BUSINESS WILL BE CARRIED ON IN CONNECTION
WITH THE MEAT MARKET UNDER THE NAME OF
J. M. Johnson Co.
THEY WILL BE SUPPLIED TO FURNISH YOU
EVERYTHING TO EAT. WHEN YOU WANT GROCE
RIES OK FRESH MEATS,
PHONE 91
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WHO WASMT TO
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