Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

. .-V^H' PAGE FOUR. Market Reports (Over Pursley, Slaton A Co.’s Private Wire). Jno. F. Clark & Company’s Cotton Letter ... . .......... t , New York, Oct. 4.—Liverpool re sponded fully to our sharp setback of yesterday but recovered prompt iy. Pur market at the opening met -■ome^lefU^overntelung^fders . . from yesterday but these were easily ab sorbed and first prices proved the lowest of the day. Advices from the interior showed that farmers were resisting lower prices, while buying by mills was a feature in the future market, no doubt a case of cause and effect. Prospect of more unsettled weath er is keeping spinners anxious. Af ter a small reaction on usual profit taking, the close is 40 to 45 higher than last night, far months gaining moat Weather continues an important influence but we favor purchases on all good setbacks. New Orleans Cotton jOpenTHigh LowjCloselClose Jan. II 25.04125.56 25.02 If 25.5024.98 ev - .. Mch.___I25.28j25.70 25.26 25.80 25.67 25.22 25.29 May ... )26.38|2,5.83 25.38 24.85 Oct. ___ 24.90 25.35 24.90 25.36 Dec. „ - 24.98 25.48 24.90 25.38 24.95 Spots—Middling 45 up 25.45. New York Cotton Low|Close j Prev. Open High Close Jan. Mch. ... 25.20 25.9126.42(25.85 25.69 25,15(25.60 25.05 25.27 — 25 JO Doc. Oet — 26.00 26.37 25.98(26.32(25.90 ... 25.10 25.56|25.10|25.45 (25.00 Spots—Middling 45 up 26.60. Griffin Spot Cotton Prev. Open j Close Close Good middling 25.00. Strict middling 24.75. Middling 24.50. Grain and Provision WHEAT Dec...................145% 148% 145% May 149% 152% 150 July ..................137% 139% 137 CORN— Dec................ 109% 111% 110% 112% 114% 113% July ..................113% 115% 113% OATS— Dec. 56% 57% 66% May ......... 6i% 61% 61% July 59% 60% 59% RIBS— Oct. ............ 12.25 Nov............ 12,30 LARD— Oct. ..'.......... .........14.75 15.05 14.52 Nov.......... .... 14.50 15.00 14.55 Jan. .........14.00 14.22 13.90 BELLIES— Oct. ........14.45 14.45 14.35 Nov. ........14.45 14.45 14.37 YOUNG RUSSELL BOY DIES THIS MORNING Funeral services for Richard Rus sell, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Russell, of Experiment, who died at pn early hour this morning, will be held from, the gravesjde at Thomaston Sunday morning at/II o’clock. The Rev. R. C. iard son will officiate. Haisten Bros., will be in charge. ANTI-KISSING EDICT LATEST SOVIET S£EP Moscow, Oct. 4.—Dr, Nicholas Se mashko, soviet commissar of health, has issued an edict against kissing, which he contends, is one of the most potent means of spreading dis ease. The new order, if observed, will fall hard upon the Russian peas antry, who are in the habit of kiss ing one another not only on the lips but three times on each cheek in salutation. HAMPTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH TO OBSERVE HOME COMING DAY Home coming services will be held at the Hampton Christian church on Sunday, October 12. E. L. Shelnutt, John H. Wood and other former pastorB of the church are expected to be present. Zebulon News (Pike County Journal) Little Pearl Hill, of Foraytb, re turned home Thursday after spending two weeks with her aunt, Mrs. J. J. Slade. Mrs. Jones, Of'Yatesville, was the of her sister, Mrs. Mattie Brazier, during the Association Those from Zebulon attending the senatorial conven tion for the T wenty second district at Bamesvilie last Thursday were Mrs. W. J. Franklin, Messrs. H. L. Green, J. M. Means and F. L. Adams. Mrs. Allen Williams, of Yatesville, was the guest of her ~ mother, Mrs. Washie Howell, during the Associa tion. Dr. Gable and mother, of Brooks, attended the Association Wednesday. Mrs. Fred Stegar and Miss Lottie Stegar spent Thursday in McDonough with Mrs. Weems. Mrs. Drewry Arthur, of Means ville, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lem Hooten. Mr. and Mrs. Burks, of Fayette ville, were the recent guests of their daughter, Mrs. Claude Tidwell. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Adams and children spent Tuesday afternoon in Griffin. J. W. Brown was in Griffin Tues day afternoon. IMAGINATION IN BUSINESS Hardware Merchant—I tell you, that new salesman we put in is a corker—he’s got ideas! Traveling Salesman—What’s he done? Hardware Merchant—He’s sold that big lot of old-fa3hioned sewing ma chines we had in the warehouse—the ones that work by hand, you know— just told the stout woman who came in that the pretty girl he had show ing them used this plan to reduce her weight. Both the emerald and the ruby, if flawless, exceed the diamond ir value. V. *»*«P)I mmmmmmm WANT ADS FOR SALE—Violin. Apply to Mrs. W. T. Scott.— .............. FOR RENT—One furnished room. Close in. 220 W. College Street. Phone 207-J. FOR SALE: Four 80 saw Cotton Gins with complete equip-1 ment in splendid condition. Priced j | low for cash. Charles Phillips, Jr„ vrft. __ .. FPR SALE—Rust proof oats, clean and free of amoot; home grown. At Gossett A Sons.— FOR SALE—36 white Leghorn pullets, five months old. Ferris strain. Apply to H. C. Starr, 233 E. Broad St. MEN’S VELOUR HATS, worth $5 to $8, at $2.95. Stewart’s, 18 Broad street. WANTED—3 or 4 unfurnished rooms or small house. Phone 541 and call for Mr. Perry. FOR SALE—Daffodil Bulbs. Call 165. WE WILL PAY 1-2 cent apiece for vigorous, live boll weevils in lots of 1,000 oj more until we have ob tained 20,000 weevils. See Mr. Mc Quaid or Mr. Bledsoe, chemistry building, Ga., Experiment station. FOR RENT—One furnished rooi Close in. 220 W. College strefet. Phone207-J. * LADIES Silk hose, good value, 25 cents. Stewarts, 118 Broad St. FOR RENT—One furnished room, close in, east of City Hall, 217 East Solomon. Mrs. A. O. Spruce. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms or small apartment with private bath; close in. Phone 175. One singer of repute carries three special pillows on her tours in sisting that she is unable to sleep without them. Thursday, Oct. 16th Home-Coming Day Griffin-Spalding County Fair October 13th to 18th 1924 . - V* ' ¥ i •• __ Write Your Friends and Relatives to Return to Griffin and Make it a Joyful, Old-fashioned Reunion Call at Chamber of Commerce after next Monday for “Home-Coming n Postals to send out Griffin and Spalding County Fair Association L. J. GAISSERT, President W. T. BENNETT, Vice-President H. B. MONTGOMERY, Secretary A / GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS Per Cent of New York Taxi Men Are Thieves, Sots or Drug Users, Is Report New York, Oct. 4.- « Eighty per cent of the taxi chauffeurs in this city are either drunkards, drug ad dicts or ‘sneak tHUves. It William Larney, chairman of the board of directors of the Mogul Checker Taxicab company, made this s tatement yesterday before Mag!? trate Oberwager in connection with the case of a tax chauffeur in his teens who had disappeared with a Checker, cab for two days. The youth was dismissed, but Mr. Lar ney found opportunity to speak his mind, u Only a short time ago,” he said a taxi company here went into bankruptcy because its stripped the cars of valuables, tarn- Germany Is Facing Wheat Famine As Storms Destroy Half of Crops Berlin, Oct. 4.—Germany faces a wheat famine. Government com missions investigating storm devas tated areas reported today that at least 50 per cent of both summer and winter wheat crops have been destroyed by rain. Germany will have to call upon the United States, Canada and South America for 1,500,000 tons of wheat more than she usually imports. Russia is in no position to supply this country’s needs for there is a partial famine there. The government appointed investi gators in the belief that complaints of farmers reflected simply their usual pessimism. But the investiga tors nave reported that if anything the farmers underestimated their MACON CITY COURT COLLECTS $2,500 IN SINGLE DAY Macon, Ga., Oct. 4.—Fines amount ing to $2,500 were collected in the city court of Macon yesterday in Saturda y. October 4 , 1924. pered with the meters so they did not register properly, and pocketed fares right and left. In many cases they stole the machines outright. “This condition is outrageous. There are only eight inspectors for 16,000 cabs in the city. Recently we offered to pay salaries of four more inspectors, but this offer was turned down. We have sought re lief from the governor and the may or without succeeding. ft Mr. Larney, former secretary of the New York fire department and inspector in the bureau of combusti bles, declared the way to cure the evil was to increase the inspection staff, bond chauffeurs and require rigid inspection of chauffeur license applicants. shortage. The Rhineland and Westphalia have been hit hardest. Many dis tricts there are shy 75 per yent of their normal crop. In some sec tions millers have rejected the wet sloppy grain because it clogged the mills and the bread made from the product was as hard as stone. East Prussia has lost half of its crop or more; the more fortunate districts are only 30 per eent shy. The Reich proposes to put a tariff on imported wheat and use the rev enue to aid farmers. Without large imports the cities would be without bread, hut even farmers themselves might go hungry, many fields pro viding too little for the needs of famiyl. eight cases, in which the pleaded guilty. Among the ants was an entire family, all ed with violation of the state hibition law, they being Mr. Mrs. W. E. Ridley and their Horace Ridley. The fines Eugene B. Grace wa3 fined $600 in whiskey case, while .'m Basa* of a cafe, was fined $450 each of two cases. Warning was given by J udge^ R. 0 that if the defendants appear before him again on similar charges he will mete out straight chaingang sentences. FUTILE ATTEM PT MADE BY GEORGIA YOUTHS TO ESCAPE ATLANTA JAIL Atlanta, Oct. 4.—An attempt by R. W. Jones, 19, of Senoia, Ga., and Ernest Jarrell, 18 »f Opelika, Ala.,, to escape from a cell at police head quarters was frustrated today when Call Officers Fred Tippen and A. S. Bond surprised the .youths in the act. of sawing an iron bar in a window. A search of the cell disclosed hack saws concealed beneath the bars, is was stated. Jones and Jarrell are being held on blanket charges of suspicion. An investigation is being made to deter mine how they got the saws. STRIBLING IS MOVING WITHIN ELITE CIRCLES Atlanta, Oct. 4.—A former sec retary of war, a governor, a golf champion, an . up and coming prize fighter shared honors yesterday at a business men’s luncheon. They were Newton D. Baker, who is here as chief counsel for the Federal Reserve bank i n a suit which has [been on trial by a Mississippi bank; Governor Walker, of Georgia; Bobby Jones and W. L. (Young) Stribling, who has cut quite a swath in nation al fistic circles. Each of the notables was accord ed an ovation when presented to the assemblage. SOMETHING, ANYHOW “There was a time when people used to say I had more money than brains, but they can’t say that now. ft “Why not? >> it Because I have come down to my last copper. it H But you’ve still got a copper. tt