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Mrs. F. H. Wilson an
birth of a daughter,
been given the name of
. Jane Floyd.
mm Mrs. DeForrest Allgood has re
turned to Griffin after a several
months’ visit to her son, Andrew
0;y|6od t in New York City.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brooks
have returned home after attend
ing the Southern Textile Exposi
l W tion in Greenville, S. C. Mr.
Brooks is superintendent of the
If Georgia-Kincaid mill.
Morris Crouch, of Michigan
: City, Ind., is expected to arrive in
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Griffin early in November to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Otis Crouch, for the marriage
his sister, Miss Virginia Crouch,
and James Freeman.
A number of young people from
Macon motored to Griffin this
ernoon for the football game
Lightfoot park between Griffin
High and Lanier High.
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W. E. King, of Concord, made a
business trip to Griffin Thursday.
Mrs. C. T. Conley, of Locust
- Grove, was shopping in the city
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Mrs. D. W. Pritchett, of Barnes
ville, spent Thursday in Griffin
with her- mother, Mrs, Henry Bass,
' on East College street.
Miss Lila Ingram, of Barnes
ville, spent Thursday in Griffin
with friends.
Mrs. N. G. Nipper, of William
son, was a shopper in Griffin
Thursday.
i J. H. Crowder, of Rover, spent
Thursday in Griffin on business.
Mrs. J. T. Freeman, of Rover,
who has been critically ill, has
recovered and is able to be out.
She spent Thursday in Griffin with
Mrs. T. J. Brooks.
Mrs. W. 3. and Mias
Mary Adams, of Barnesville, vis
ited friends in Griffin Thursday.
: Mrs. W. C. Ballard, of William
son, was shopping in Griffin Thurs
-A.;V day.
Mrs. H. L. Minter, of Sunny
Side, was in Griffin Thursday.
Miss Evelyn Slade has gone to
Rye, N. Y., to spend some time
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GRIFFIN, GA.
with her slater, Mrs. John Dray
ton Depew. hit, and Mrs. Depew
have recently moved from New
York City and purchased a home
in Rye, one of the fashionable
suburbs.
Mias Katherine Randall has re
turned home after a short visit to
relatives in Concord, where she
attended the Strickland-Heflin
wedding.
L. F. Montgomery has returned
to his home in Atlanta after a
short visit in Griffin to his cousin,
Bruce Montgomery,
Mrs. W. E. King was among
those from Concprd spending
Thursday in Griffhv.shopping.
Mrs. J. H, Crowder, of Rover,
visited Griffin friend 8 Thursday.
Mrs. John Mills spent Thursday
with Mrs. Butler Walker on North
Hill street.
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Allan Little is in Greenville,
S. C., attending the Southern Tex
tile Exposition.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Newman
were the guests of relatives in
Concord Wednesday for the wed
ding of Miss Katherine Strickland
and Erpest Heflin.
Mrs. Erakine Se*y, of Norfolk,
Va., who js visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Carlisle,
will spend Friday night and Sat
urday in Decatur with Miss Ros
alind Janes, is a student at
Agnes Ccott college.
A recent issue of the Atlanta
Journal carried a large picture of
John Brewer, star athlete at G.
H. S. last year, with “A future
star of the Golden Tornado,” over
it.
Mrs. Robert M. Strickland and
Miss Hattie Head have returned
from Concord where they attend
ed the marriage of Miss Kathar
ine Strickland and Ernest Hei in,
of Pennsboro! W, Va.
Lewis Thomas is spending sev
eral days in Greenville, S. C., at
tending the Southern Textile Ex
position.
Mr. and Mr,. David T. Bussey
and David Bussey, Jr., are mov
ing into the home of Mrs. John
Mills, on North Hill street, which
was formerly occupied by Mrs.
Mills and family.
Miss Antoinette Smith, who
was the guest of friends at Vir
ginia Beach and her cousin, Mrs.
Jack Potts, in Richmond, for
several weeks, is now visiting
Miss Helen Biddle, in Garden
City, L. I. Miss Smith will visit
at Gardner’s school in New York
city, where she was formerly a
student, and will spend some time
with her aunt, Mrs. Ronald Spain,
in Forest Hills, L. I., before re
turning to Griffin.
HIS LOVE REJECTED
HE SHOOTS HIMSELF
BEFORE GIRL’S HOME.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 22.—Herman
Smith, 24, lies this morning near
death with a bullet in his lungs,
the result of a rejected love suit.
He shot himself last night after
parking his car in front of the
house of his sweetheart. He left
this note on the back of a picture
of the girl:
it Goodbye, Sweetest, I am going
away. I hope you are well pleas
ed with your little joke, You see
what has come of it.”
LADY ASTOR EXPECTED
TO WIN RE-ELECTION
Plymouth, Eng., Oct. 23.—(By
Associated Press.)—The pros
of Lady Astor, &ho is
for re-election to parlia
in the Sutton division of
are regarded as par
bright and her support
are confident that the labor
candidate, Captain G. W. Bren
who she defeated last year,
no chance.
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ENTERS MERCER
Macon, Oct. 23.—Watters 3i» Mil
Icr, grandson of “karse Henry’
Watterson, late editor cf thq
Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky.,
has just entered the school of
journalism of Mercer university
with a view toward preparing him
self to follow in the footsteps o'
his illustrious, grandparent.
In enrolling at Mercer, yoivn,: ;
Miller said he did not want to tab;
the easier route offered him to
newspaper success, that of be
ginning on the Courier-Joupna!
and riding on the fame of his an
ccstor, but that he wished to rise
by his own efforts.
After two years at Dartmouth
college he left to come south sc
that he could get into the jour
nalistic atmosphere of the section
so dear to “Mapse Henry,’ he in
dicated.
His home is at Joffersontown,
Ky.
WALES’ AMBITION
IS TO DANCE JUST
LIKE AMERICANS
Ottawa, Can., Oct. 22.—The
Prince of Wales has an ambi
tion. Or perhaps it would be bet
ter to say he had one.
His royal highness entertains
(or entertained) the ambition to
bd a as good dancer as an Amer
ican. *
All this on the word of Elean
Murdock, daugther x of Canada’s
minister of labor.
Miss Murdock was the first girl
to dance with the prince at the
ball given in his honor by Lord
and Rady Byng.
Just what sort of dancing the
young lady expected from the
heir to the British throne can
never be learned.
But she confesses saying to
her royal partner:
“Why, you dance just like an
American. »»
u That’s one of my ambition*,
replied, U You have told me
most pleasant thing I’ve heard
my arrival in Canada.
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LAST DAY TO
FILE PENSIONS
Atlanta, Oct. 23. ■Official an
was made yesterday
the state pension department
November 1, 1924, will be
last date on which applica
for pension may be filed in
department to be passed on
the payrolls of 1925.
Applications filed after that
will not appear upon the
payrolls but will have to be
over and 'passed upon for
Letters on the subject were
to the ordinaries under
date of October 6, and a sup
of the necessar y printed ap
blanks sent to them.
All persons who have not yet
application and - wish to do
should immediately confer with
ordinary of the county in
they are resident. All ap
must be mader before
ordinary and left with him to
sent to the pension depart
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DAUGHTER
MARRIED TO CAPTAIN
London, Oct. 23.—Miss Elsie
daughter of Rudyard
was quietly married
at St. Margaret’s
Westminster, to Captain
Rambridge, honorary at
of the British legation at
A reception was held
Stanley Baldwin’s home in
Square, which was lent for
occasion.
OPPOSE DAWES PLAN
Berlin, Oct. 23.—Over the sig
of General Ludendorff, the
or fascist, party has pub
a campaign proclamation
that repudiation of the
plan will be the party’s
aim in the coming election.
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told hi* wife. Antoinette (right), that, he hod "an important business
eng a gemen t.* she fallowed him. Before the eyes of the woman with
whom she him, she shot him to death. The “other woman,”
fHortnlne Ullmaa (left), faeed the pistol, but the hammer clicked
against an empty shell She says she didn’t know Fedeli was mar
ried, and her test imony may save Mrs. Fedeli
Boston Girls Trust Handsome Stranger
At Race Track to Make Bet for Them
They’re Wondering How to Get Home
Washington, Oct. 23.—He was
handsome and he had an auto
mobile.
But that isn’t what attracted
one to him.
It was the honest look in his
eyes, a look that would lead per
sons to trust him with their last
dollar.
And that is what two young
women from Boston did.
Now. they are wondfering how
they are going to get back to
Boston.
The young women—Miss Mabel
Wilkinson and Miss Florence Irv
Prison on wheels
is advocated for
FLORIDA SPEEDERS
Miami, Fla., Oct. 23.—As a re
sult of 294 automobile accidents
here this year, the Miami Motor
club has asked the city commis
sioners to adopt prison on
wheels for the purpose of exhibi
tion on the streets of persons
found guilty of flagrant violation
of the traffic laws.
The plan calls for several cells
mounted on an automobile truck.
This would be parked for sever
al hours a day at the busy cor
ners, the cells, each \4ith a pla
card stating the nature of the of
fense charged, being so construct^
ed that a full view’of the occu
pant would be obtained.
MACON FOOTBALL
TEAM PLAYING
HERE TODAY
The Lanier High school football
of Macon is playing the
Griffin High school team here t<v
day. There is much rivalry be
tween the teams and a fast and
close game is.anticipated.
THE LOWER THE FEWER
Tired Actor: I want to get a
berth.
Pullman agent: Upper or low
er?
T. A.: What’s the difference?
P. A.: Twenty per cent. The
lower is higher than the upper.
The higher price is for the low
er. If you want it lower you’ll
have to go higher. We sell the
upper lower than the lower. Most
people don’t like the upper, al
though it is lower on account of
it being higher. When you occu
py an upper you get up to go
to bed and get down when you
get up. If you are willing to go
higher you can have - the lower,
but the higher—,” but the actor
had fainted away and was hap
A London woman possesses a
unique collection of more htan 300
books on etiquette.
ing—told the story last night at
the detective bureau,
Took $160.
They said the man with the
honest look in his eyes swindled
them out of $160 and they were
ag }, anie( j to wire home for more
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The swindle, they said, occurred
at the Laurel race track, whither
the trio had gone for a day’s out
ing and ihcidently a “killing.
Would Double Money.
“He told us that he had two
jockeys in his employ,” Miss Wil
kinson said. u Everything was
fixed for him to win the last two
races. It was some kind of a
frame-up. We had never been to
the races, but he seemed so nice
and so convincing that we turn
ed our $160 over to him. He said
he would more than double it
for us.”
The gentleman swindler, accord
ing to the young women, left
them just before the start of
the sixth race and never return
ed.
Borrowed $20.
When the last race was over
and he was still missing they
became suspicious and went to an
official of the park. He loaned
them $20 and advised them to re
port the swindle at the detective
bureau here.
Honestly, you would never
take him for a rogue,” said Miss
Wilkinson. “He had such nice
ways and such nice features. >>
FRENCH NEWSPAPERS
RAISE THEIR PRICES
Paris, Oct. 23.—Because of the
increased price of paper and
greater general expenses, a meet
ing of French newspaper pub
lishers today voted to raise 'the
price., of newspapers to 20 cen
times Nov. 1.
STILL THEY COME
Recent new subscribers and re
newals to The News are W. M.
Mayfield, Route D; Mrs. R. A.
-..iblett, Route D; R. D. Leverett,
Route D; A. P. Head, Route B;
Mrs. T. C. Blackman, Route D;
J. T. Cochran, Route D; L. L.
Caldwell, Route D; G. C. Patrick,
Route D; W. L. Kennedy, Route
D; Willie Harper, Zetella.
AUGUSTA FIRE CHIEF DEAD
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 23.—Frank
G. Reynolds, chief of the Augusta
fire department for the past 20
years, died Tuesday night after
an extended illness. He was for
erliy. president of the Internation
al Association of Fire Chiefs.
October 23, 1924
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SATURDAY
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flapper” of the screen, turns her
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Flirting With Love, which
shows today and .trtmoncow at the
Alamo.
She shares honors with Conway
Tearle in the film, in which she
enacts the role of a musical com
edy star, whose show is closed by
Censor Tearle. Her unique plan
to obtain revenge on the censor
and the unexpected results make
an engrossing plot.
- The Sideshow of Life, tt fea
turing Ernest Torrence and Anna
Q. Nillson, will be the attractioh
at the Alamo theatre Saturday.
The story is one of society and
the circus, with scenes laid in
England and France.
One football field in this coun
try has a loud speaker that am
plifies the voice of the announc
er 50,000 times.
Alaska has a federation of wo
men’s clubs, consisting of eight
clubs and 250 members.
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Values
1921—Ford Touring.
1924—Ford Touring.
1924—Ford Tudor Sedan.
1918— Buick Touring.
1919— Dodge Touring.
1920— Overland Touring,
1921— Essex Coupe.
1921—Buick Sedan.
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109 East Solomon St. Phone 680
Miss Sheife Kaye-Smith, the
young English novelist, who has
just married a clergyman, made
her first essay as j» writer of
fiction at the age of 14.
Gasoline now sells for 14 cents
a gallon in Rumania.
S. G. BAILEY
114 E. Solomdn St.
Real Estate and
Insurance
FOR SALE
Three choice lots on South Hill
street.
The attractive Royster home,
South 12th street.
FOR RENT
Offices, 114 West Solomon street.
Will improve to suit tenant.
S. G. BAILEY
Real Estate & Insurance
Phones: Office 2 Res. 1
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Drop in and try on a pair—many
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