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ASSASSIN ESCAPES
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Lige Reeves Accused of
Shooting at Griffin
Man and Family.
Lamar (
county authorities are
^looking for Lige Reeves, 30 years
old, who has escaped jail after
his arrest on the charge of at
tempting to slay from ambush his
brother-in-law, H. K. Caldwell,
of Griffin, following a dispute
earlier in the day.
Caldwell is employed at plant
No. 2 of the Pomono Products
Co.
Reeves is accused of having
lain in hiding near the New Hope
church and to have fired with a
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shotgun, on the automobile con
taining Mr^and Mrs. Caldwell
and their children.
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• Between Seats.
The shots passed between the
front and back seats of the car
and occupants escaped injury al
most by a miracle.. Mr. and Mrs.
Caldwell were in the front seat;
the children in the rear, One
shot struck a little son in the
cheek. X
Saws Way To Liberty.
Reeves later was arrested.
charged with “assault with intent
to murder, and was lodged in
jail at Barnesville. He spent on
ly a short time there, however,
as he and a negro sawed their
way through stell bars and are
still at liberty.
Lamar county officers say
Reeves has has a bad reputation
and a police record. He is a
farmer, the son of George Reeves.
Davis, Stumping
Chicago, Hits Klan
Chicago, Oct. 17.-r-(By the As
sociated Press.)—John W. Davis,
carried the democratic campaign
further into Chicago today and
prepared, after a series of ad
dresses scheduled tonight in Bo
hemian, Po.lish and Jewish sec
tions of this city, to turn south
again, headed for St. Louis and
Missouri.
The officialy report of Mr., Da
v^7^ari£Soh^B^Ku^ux“KlaS
said in part:"^
u In my judgment, greater
no
misfortune____could overtake the
American people than that of
division along the lines of race
or religious beliefs.
“Whether it be called the Klan
or any other name, any organi
zation that challenges the doc
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trine of religious toleration does
violence to American ideals and
could not be approved by those
who believe, like myself, in those
principles. ft
WOMAN TO TRY HER
MARKSMANSHIP ON
AFRICAN BIG GAME
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Mrs. shot E. L. King,*champion
woman of the Norhtwest, is
go ing to try out her marksmanship
°n Wg game. She Africa ia on her way
0 British £asi with her
(twband and »on,$ They hope to
back tome Worthwhile ad
JiqUbqjf. borne JpJjin
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ATLANTA COPS STAGE
30.»INUTE BOUT WITH
GOAT IN HEART OF CITY
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^Atlanta, Oct. 17.—One stray
“Bitty.” goat and two Atlanta of
fleers fought all over Peachtree
street last night for 30 minutes
while hundreds of shoppers look
ed on and alternately cheered the
“coppers” and the goat and bet
on the outcome. The goat finally
was conquered but the frequently
butted “toreadors” were taken to
the hospital for treatment.
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The October term of the Spald
ing superioi court will convene
Monday, October 20, with Judge
W. E. H. Searcy, Jr •> presiding.
There are 29 cases acmfmfw
There are 29 appearance cases,
with 8 divorce cases on the ap
pearance docket; 58 cases on the
trial docket with 28 divorce cases.
Grand Jury List. J
B. D. Joiner, J. W. Lindsey, J.
P. Williams, T. H. Wynne, W. B.
Griffin, Frank Sorrell, J. C. Ed
wards, E. U. Snider, B. R. West
moreland, W. H. Wheaton, C.
R. Walker, J. W. T ouchston e, A.
G. Swint, J. B. Tyus, B. H. Moore,
Savage Gaillard, E. F. Travis,
T. E. Strickland, P. J. Slaton,
W. H. Scott, John E. Miller, W.
G. Nichols, B. Slade, T. M. Man
ley, Jr., W. B. Crowder, J. W.
Cooper, J. D. Cox, R. O. Crouch,
H. C. Huckaby.
Petit Jury List.
Firrft week: L. W. Traer, G. C.
Smith, John Bryant, Oscar F.
Brooks, C. L. Bates, 1 L. T. Maddox,
J. J. Vaughn, R. M. Blanton, T. J.
Denham, M. S. Turner, L. H.
Steele, J. T. Shivers, D. A. Shep
herd, O. W. Sims, John Steele,
Snow Hand, J. H. Latta, C. H.
Latta, J. V. Kilgore, W. E. Knox,
E. Kirkland, J. E. Hand, Evander
Shapard, J. S. Tyus, R. A. Stew
art, T. R. IS3mith, C. E. Street,
W. H. ‘“Dingier, T. T. Hammond,
L. Futral, F. M. Gaissert, J.
A. Gammon, W. S. Futral, J.
Hunter Goddard, Albert Gossett,
J. W. Gossett, J. B. Futral, W.
L. Harris, R. E. Tyus.
Second W’eek.
Seconil .veek: Jesse M. Smith,
J. F. Sibley, R. P. Shapard, J.
D. Thomas, R. N. Smarr, Geo. N.
Murray, Q. A. Waldrup, A. F.
Gossett, J. E. Dearing, R. H.
Weaver, J. A. English, J. O.
Coats, Henry Crowder, J. P. Nich
ols, Jr., W. H. Bolton, J. L. Col
quitt, G. H. Clark, J. F. Dickin
son, William Wesley, J. W. Mash
burn, E. S. McDowell, J. W. Ham
mond, D. S. Haisfield, W. S. Head,
J. T. Mitchell, W. P. Maloy, W.
F. Malaier, C. D. Hale, T. W.
Futral, Paul Flynt, E. W. Hemp
hill, M. E. Mote, K. G. Blanton,
L. H. Jordan, Ralph M. Jones,
S. V. Johnson, D. E. Ellis, J. M.
Lofley, E. M. Flynt, L. P. Fu
tral, Ira W. Greer, D. C. Gaillard,
W. F. Williams, F. L. Goddard,
E. G. Wilson, J. H. McLaurin,
R. B. Higgins, W. C. Elder, G.
L. English, J. W. McWilliams, L.
J. Gaissert, C. E. Eubanks, P. R.
Maddox, Goodrich Manley, . F.
ManleV, C. E. Newton.
VOIDED IN ZONING LAW
RACE SEGREGATION
Atlanta, Oct. 17.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—The Georgia su
preme court rules that the Atlan
ta zoning law is unconstitutional
in so far as segregation of races
is concerned.
AN EXPLANATION
Due to the fact that our com
posing room was swamped with
work in enlarging the size of the
paper, the News delayed printing
the bank statement of the City
National Bank until today, al
though it was turned in Wed
nesday. This explanation is made
in justice to the bank.
GRIFFIN, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1924.
Four Stonesifer Brothers Wed Four. Stonesifer, Sisters
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When four Stonesifer brothers married four Stoneslfer sisters, who ware not related to them,
they created a quadruple marrtafee m| that probably is without precedent. The weddings single took Stonesifer place at
different times. There may a pair of similar weddings, for their are two
sisters and two single brothers. 'Left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Otis Stonesifer, Deep Run, Md.;
Mr. and Mrs. Lester E. Stonesifer, Hanover, P».; Mr. and Mrs. William G. Stonesifer. Union Mills,
Md., and Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Stonesifer, Melrose, Mr. __
Mathews & Walker
Carry Off Honors
In Livestock Show
Mathews & Walker were
awarded more ;ibbjns in the live
stock exhibit!? at the fair tnan
any other entrant, winning first
and second on aged Jersey cow;
second on best calf, under 1
year old; second, bull, under 2
years, and second, aged bull.
They also exhibited 10 head of
Hampshire sheep.
Zetella Dairy Farm was award
ed first prize on junior boar and
junior gilt.
The Spalding county chain gang
won first, second and third cm
aged sow and first on junior boar.
W. C. Maddox won second and
third on Poland China gilts.
Marvin Crowder was awarded
first on junior gilts and senior
pig boar and third on senior pig
boar.
Pink Traer won fourth and fifth
prizes on junior gilts.
P. K. Beam & Son brought
their heard of Spotted Poland
Chinas here from the Southeast
ern Fa ir. The judges ruled them
ineligible in contesting Tor the
prizes awarded by the Griffin Fair
Association.
J. B. Hardeman & Bro., of
Commerce, Ga., had their herd
of Jersey cattle and Berkshire
hogs on exhibition also but
entered in the prize contest.
W, T. Pursley and W. G. Nor
man entered Jersev cows.
Georgia Experiment Station had
on exhibition several Holstein and
Jersey cows*
\ GEORGIAN AND MOTHER j j
| SENTENCED FOR HIDING
KNOWLEDGE OF MURDER |
Warrenton, Oct. 17.— (By the
Associated Press.)
Thompson, 25 year,s old, was sen
tenced to 12 months at the Geor
gia state farm, and his
Mrs. ftachael Thompson, 55,
sentenced to 12 months at
farm and C months in jail here
today.
The entire sentence imposed on
the mother was suspended on the
condtiion of good behovior.
They were charged with being
accessories after the fact in the
murder of Hattie Wimberly, of
Augusta, in that they knew the
crime had been committed arid
failed to report it to> the author
ities.
r WEATHER FORECAST
V.
__For Georgia: Fair Friday
Saturday, little change in
ature. Moderate northeast
east winds. Temperature for
hours ending at noon
Maximum 83; minimum 59;
71,
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Wire Bulletins
2.557 BALE S OF HENRY COT
TON GINNED TO OCTOBER 1
The tabulation of the ginning
report shows 2,557 bales of cot
ton, counting round bales as half
bales, ginned in Henry county
from the crop of 1924 -prior to
October i.
2 WOMEN AND BOY
KILLED IN CRASH
Kane, Pa., Oct. 17.—(By the
Assorted Press.)—A coroner’s
jury Returned a vei^|t VBl of un
avoidable i.r.ident killing
of two women and iSFboy late
yesterday when their closed au
tomobile was struck by an ex
press train near here.
WOMAN ONE OF TRIO
HELD IN HIGHWAY ROBBERY
..Brunswick, Oct. 17.—(By the
Associated Press.)—One woman
and two men are in jail here and
another is held in the Waycross
jail following the highway rob
bery of J. L. Thomas, of Offer
man, near Blackshear, Wednes
day, during which the victim was
beaten unconscious, relieved of
$250 and left on the roadside for
dead.
GREAT CHINESE
BATTLE RAGING
Tientsin, Oct. 17.—(By the As
sociated Press.) — The battle of
Shanhaikwan continues unceas
ingly. Shanhaikwan itself is suf
fering damage from the bombard
ment of Manchurian troops seek
ing to make permanent the cap
ture of the key border town. Cen
tral government soldiers are be
ing massed in an attempt to re
take Shihimenkai, another great
wall point.
HARRIS NAMED FOR
PENSION POST.
—Atlanta, Oct. 17.—(By the
sociated Press.)—Gov. Clifford
Walker announces the appoint
ment of former Gov. Nat E.
ris to the unexpired term of the
late Major Charles F. McGregor,
pension commissioner. Mr. Har
ris has taken the matter under
) advisement.
j Shenandoah Leaving
California, Travels
Path of Old Missions
San Ftancisco, Oct. 17.—(By
the Associated Press.)—Cruising
in the air path of old California
missions, through a storm which
delayed her progress during the
night, the navy dirigible Shenan
doah is moving into the land of
the argonauts. It Ts due at its
destination, Camp Lewis, Wash.,
early Sunday morning.
Rev. Williamson
Will Be Installed
Formally Sunday
At ah adjourned meeting of the
Atlanta Presbytery at Valdosta
last week, tne Rev. Malcolm R.
Williamson wjis received into the
Presbytery from the Presbytery
of. Savannah and a committee was
was appointed to install him pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
church of Griffin.
Sunday is the day that has been
set for this impressive service
at which time the commission,
composed of the Rev. M. McN.
McKay, of Atlanta, the Rev. Mar
shall S. Woodson, of Decatur, and
Elder Charles Montgomery, of
Atlanta, will be present for the
installation. Mr. McKay will pre
side, propound the constitutional
questions and deliver the charge
to the pastor.
Mr. Woodson will preaeh the in
stallation sermon, and Mr. Mont
gomery will deliver the charge
to the congregation.
The service will be held at the
regular hour of the morning wor
ship, 11 o’clock, and a cordial in
vitation is extended to members
of the congregation and friends
to be present.
Pacer, Holder of
New Record, Loses
At Fair Yesterday
Melbert, winner of Wednes
day’s pace, when he set a track
record, was beaten in a free-for
all pace yesterday by George M.,
owned and driven by Midvo, of
Orlando, Fla.
The results of yesterday’s races
follow:
First race, 2:12 trot, purse
$250.
Horse: Driver | Heats
Pat Harmon Wallace! 1 j 1 I 1
Miss Fortune Russell) 2 | 3 3
1 Clay Simpson A’str’g J. 3 4 2
‘ Van Wood Hammondj 4 | 2 4
Time 2:19 1-4; 2:19 1-4; 2:19
1 Second race, free-for-all
| purse $300.
Horse: Driver I Heats:
Melbert Wallacej 2 | 2 | 2
George M. Midvoj 1 j 1 1
Allan Pointer V’Burenj 1 j 1 1 1
Alice W. Bloomfield I 4 ; 4 3
Time: 2:13 1-4; 2:14 14; 2:12.
f THANKS!
“The Griffin News has a
fair edition -of that excellent
per which the management
sending to several thousands
people in the neighboring
ties. If you get one send
a subscription/ It is really
of the best papers in
GecSFgia.”—The Henry
Weekly says.
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TO AID
IN ATLANTA JAIL
Confederate, Former
ly of Here, Center of
Soldiers Home Row.
Judge J. A. Drewry has been
retained to represent W. A. Ellis,
aged Confederate veteran and
former Griffin resident, who has
been jailed in Atlanta on the
charge of officials of the Old Sol
diers’ Home that he is insane.
Ellis charges his arrest is the
result of a frame-up by Supt.
W. E. McAllister to imprison him
and six or eight other inmates
who have opposed McAllister’s
policies in running the . home.
Mr. Ellis is well known here,
where he formerly lived, and has
a number of relatives here. Prior
to his entering the Old Soldiers’
Home, he was. a familiar figure
in Griffin.
Case Gets Publicity.
Ellis’ arrest and his charges
against McAllister have figured
prominently in the Atlanta papers
the last few days. The Consti
tution carried the following story
today:
ii Officials of the Old Soldiers’
home appeared Thursday before
Ordinary Thomas H. Jeffries, and
applied for a writ of lunacy
against W. A. Ellis, aged Confed
erate veteran inmate of the home.
10- Day Respite.
Mr. Ellis was carried to Ful
ton county tower Wednesday on
a charge of lunacy. Under the
law he will now have to be held
there for 10 days, at the end of
which period he will be brought
before the ordinary in hearing,
and, if judged insane, be commit
ted to the state sanitarium at Mil
ledgeville.
it Relatives of Ellis, including a
brother, R. A. Ellis, of 65 East
Fourteenth street, himself a Con
federate veteran, charge that the
lunacy move is a frame-up on
the part of Supt. W. E. McAl
lister, of the home, and they stat
ed Thursday that every effort
would be made to prevent issu
ance of the final writ.
Retain Attorneys.
it La wye rs will be r etain e d , i t wa s
said, to fight the case in the or
dinary’s court and nothing will
be left undone to prevent remov
al u Capt of Mr. R. ElH^^ti* Lewrance, Milledgeville. of
Marietta, president of the board
of trustee! of the soldiers’ home,
Thursday denied the frame-up
charges and said that Ellis be
came abusive and violent when
brought before the board at its
meeting Wednesday on charges of
insubordination and of using abu
sive language to officials of the
home.
“Superintendent McAllister al
so denied the charges and assert
ed that Mr. Ellis was ‘crazy. i *»
ut The accusation that I am
ing to get rid of enemies
a lunacy writ is all stuff,’ he
‘The veteran is question is
ly unbalanced. The action
him was taken by the board
trustees, not by myself.'”
Fair Stormed by
School Children
of City,
School children of city
county stormed the fair
today.
As guests of the
they poured into the
early and in the middle of
afternoon and gave no signs
leaving.
Schools of Griffin and i
took a holiday for the day.
The attendance Thursday,
was 'Griffin and
Day, was estimated by fair
cials at 6,000. More than
paid admissions at the
■ while many had season tickets.
VOL.
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$1,300,
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Tells Probe
G. O. P. Will Sp
3 Millions in A1
Chicago, Oct. 17.—(By th*
Press.)—The re pub
campaign organ!*
to collect an addit
to carry on cu$(j
work, William M. Butler, c
man of the national comm
before the special
paign fund investigating con
tee.
This sum would make up the
$3,000,000 budget decided on at
the outset of the campaign*, he
said.
Matrix material has been 3W*
nished 3,000 newspapers, Georg*
Barr Baker, director of the
licity bureau, said in describing
the expenditure of $437,1099911 "i
this bureau.
Canned editorials” wer*
nished 6,000 publications, hit
tilled. t
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Large Atten
Is E
C. of C. M
The state wide meeting MR
by the Chamber of ComiBiMpf
Griffin next Tuesday, Octofri%
to plan a state-wide publii
campaign for the constitute
amendment exempting newx|§
nfacturing plants from taxai
for a period of five years, is
pec ted to draw a large ntt«
ance from every section of
state.
Secretary C. C. Thomas
celved a letter from the
Manufacturers’ Association, fl
Atlanta, commending the Sket
taken by the local chamber, 1
announcing its own repreMB
tion at the meeting and its
operation in the movement
this constitutional amei
over.
North Carolina has a
law already in force ex
new industries from
seven years, and it is
that this favorable
had much to do with the
enal growth of its
within recent ; *
years. •.
It is to put Georgia
equal footing with North Cai
lina that it is sought to 1
law enacted, Mr. Thomas
GI??FFIN IS BATTLING S
COMMERCIAL HIGH
Griffin and Atlanta Con
high schools are battling on tl
gridiron at Lightfoot Park til
afternoon. The game b«gn :
2:30 with both elevens ?
formidable line-ups. C-f;
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Friedrich .
Muenster University, in Gqn|j
aays U. S. women are very <
servative generally, but ealS iii*l H
the matter of public id
are th*a.ti!»meajr daringly progressive,;^^ ::
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