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Thursday, OctoW 30, 1924,
T Ship Found;
Jewels of Refugees Aboard
New York, Oct. 30.— Ike Me
rida has been found. One day
last week trawlers, dragging a
mile long iron sweep along the
floor of the ocean off the Virginia
Capes, caught the wreck of the
oft sought Ward liner which went
down in a collision in 1911 laden
with gold, silver, copper and jew
els.
Diver Investigated.
The trawler halted. A diver
went down to investigate. His
tugs at his life line made ot
known that it was the Merida
long before be came up out of
the water. ,, ■
It takes minutes for a man to
come up through 200 feet of wa
ter but only a moment to give a
tug of unmistakable triumph,
First Step is Success.
At once the trawlers started for
Norfolk, Va., to report to the
men who had sent them on their
terasure hunt.
That success had tended the
first step in recovering a fortune
variously estimated at from $2,
000,000 to $5,000,000. No one
knows just how much money is
locked up in the Merida.
To keep intruders away the
exact position of the Merida will
never be made known.
She is a prize, and belongs, ac
cording to the law of the sea, to
her finders.
The Merida sunk May 12, 1911,
NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS
All persons are hereby notified
to present to the undersigned at
once any claims or demands they
have against the estate of the late
Mrs. Virginia Bailey Wells, de
ceased, and to pay to the under
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signed ............. indebtedness %
any they may
owe said estate.
BILL WELLS.
SPECIAL SUNDAY
CHICKEN
LUNCHEON
Served from 1:30 to 2 P. M.
at
505 SOUTH HILL ST. A
For particulars, call 102-W not
later than 5 o’clock Saturday p. m.
A Dry Cleaning Shop Based on Prin
ciple of Quality Work and Service
We believe there are FIVE RULES that should guide us in
♦giving REAL service: ■ --------
(1) Painstaking work with beat of equipment and under our
personal supervision.
((2) No garment to leave our shop until we have carefully
inspected it.
£3) Work to be delivered when promised so far as humanly
possible. We operate our own closed truck. Just Phone 399.
(4$ /Proper dry cleaning takes a certain amount of time and
should not be rushed through too rapidly tfao the possible injury
of garments.
(5) A practical system of keeping dmsik con garments to
avoid emors in delivery.
BUNN’S
“JUST A LITTLE BETTER”
Dry Cleaning, Pressing, Altering, Hat Blocking and Tailoring.
Ladies’ Work a Specially.
134 ft. HILL ST. Phone 399 CBfFFIN, GA.
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Eskimo
Pies
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Better Than Ever i
SCALES DRUG CO.
Agents for Whitman’s and Mavis Gandies
PHONE 418 ‘ft ’■
: A A A TAkAA kik Aids . At id* A JL, A At
when she was rammed in the dead
of night. Her 197 passengers and
130 crew were removed in safety
but the vessel went down so fast
none of her cargo could be saved.
Mexican Refugees.
She had on board many promi
nent refugees from Mexico, then
in the midst of the Madero re
volt. She carried their jewels.
And she contained an unknown
of gold, silver and copper
destined for New York by
Mexican government.
OLD TIME FIDDLING
AT BARNESVILLE
Old time fiddling at Barnesville,
Ga., Aldora Cotton Mill Taber
nacle on the nights of November
7 and 8. All fiddlers, banjo and
guitar pickers and the general
public are invited to come and
hear the music of their lives.
Such musicians as J. B. Smith,
John Elerbee, Stuart, Ruffin,
Croin, John Carson, Gid Tanner,
Nickles, Melton, Hammonds, Jones
and others.
Admission 'only 25c and 35c.
T. H. MOORE,
Fossil skeletons of a tiny mi
croscopic sea plant, the diatom,
are used to locate the trend of
oil bearing sands on the Pacific
coast.
UNCLE SAM NEEDS HIM
John Washington of Washington,
D. C., works for the government
and, as he has Just turned seventy,
is entitled to retire from his labors
with a pension. But beca use he
holds the secret jSiSi!
of making flex
ible postage
stamp eaueeiere
used by the
United States
government,
Uncle Sam can’t
get along with
out him.
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Ivan Tctaste is the first Presi
dent of the recently created repub
lic of Latvia. He formerly was a
prominent lawyer In Petrograd and
was a member of several Russian
parliaments.
SOUTH GEORGIA FEUD
ENDS IN KILLING OF
PROMINENT CITIZEN
Abbeville,rOct. 30.—O. F. Pax
son was shot and killed here yes
terday afternoon At 4 o’clock by
S. F. Reid, a double barrelled shot
gun, loaded with buckshot being
used.
The killing took place in front
of the county courthouse.
There had been ill feelings be
tween the men for more than a
year, the feud being brought on
by domestic trouble.
Both men are estranged from
their Wraps.
Reid walked over and gave up
to Sheriff Smith after the shoot
ing. •
Both men are prominent citi
zens of this county, Reid being
a member of a well known Wilcox
county family. Paxson was a
prominent citizen of Abbeville.
Process of Growth
of Human Language
An artificial speaking machine
was demonstrated by Sir Richard
Paget. By blowing into it and
angering stops he mechanleally pro,
dueed complete words and sen
tences.
He used this device to Illustrate
his theory of the development of
human language from the unintel
ligible roars, grunts, squeaks, howls
and whistles of -our prehistoric an
cestors.
In those early days, he said, ac
cording to the New York World,
man used his larynx to roar,
to grunt with and at the same time
he communicated his ideas to others
by grimaces and The^fiext the vements of
tongue and lips. step was
the discovery that by blowing air
through the mouth while he was
grimacing the movements of hi*
tongue and lips produced changes
of whispered sound, so that the va
rious grimaces could be recognized
even when his back was turned. *
The last stage In the great inven
tion «f speech came when our
primitive ancestors discovered that
by roaring and grunting at the same
time as they whispered the audible
grimace became recognizable ten or
twenty times farther off than be
fore. Ti.ey also found that they
could vary the note of their roar*
and grants Without interfering with
the recognition of the grlraafe. And
so they invented the art of song.
Clouds Vary Greatly
in Their Composition
Air 1* viscid, like molasses, but
of course not so sticky. Not only
is it viscid, but Its viscosity varies
greatly with temperature and pres
sure. On the ground clouds dif
fuse rapidly, higher up they are
ropy and still higher they are
granular, like sand grains on a
beach. There are cloud levels and
clear spaces In the air where clouds
are rare or never go. These levels
were determined before the earth
took its shape. They are fixed by
the dynamic laws of the globe, says
the Rehobath Sunday Herald.
The lowest clouds Ue at less than
fitOOO feet above the ground, and
they would float there If this world
were all gaseous, like the planet Ju
pWier Is. On stormy , day* they do,
In fact, come as near to the land a*
dM# they can, and hug the grauad so
that they make the day dank.
These .clouds are heavy roiling bil
ALLIED SCIENCE
“It is said that a scientist can
take a single bone and reconstruct
the entire mammal. ft
»* Yes,” sighed the tired milli
ner, vw and women will bring me
a. single bedraggled feature and
expect me to construct a hat
around it.” r I
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The “squamaria," a
scaly plant found in England,
sucks the life from the roots of
other plant*.
NEW YORK GOVERNOR
DECLARES ROOSEVELT
IS LIKE ANDY GUMP
New York, Oct. 30. —Governor
Smith yesterday compared Theo
dore Rosevelt, his republican op
ponent, to Andy Gump. l
I received in interesting letter
today," said the governor, ** It,
says that Colonel Roosevelt told
some college boys his nose was
broken playing football, but that
when he was speaking to the
American Legion in 1923 he said
his nose had been broken boxing
A1 Callan, head of the legion in
New York.
.. That, coupled with his speeches
leads me to compare him to Andy
Gump.". H«f is all things to all
people. The only difference is
that Andy claims to wear no
man’s collar.”
ROTARY CLUB ENDORSES
INVITATION TO CHURCH
FOR CONFERENCE HERE
The Griffin Rotary ciub voted
today to join with the Chamber
of Commerce in extending an in
vitation to the North Georgia
Methodist conference to hold its
1925 session in Griffin.
“At this session, t> said C. - n C.
Thomas, secretary of the trade
body, in presenting the matter,
“the question of the unification of
the southern and northern Metho
dist churches will be decided, and
the eyes of the world will be fo
cused on Griffin. It will be one
of the most historic conferences in
the history of the Methodists and
bring several hundred of the most
prominent men in the nation to
this city. >?
• The vote of the club in extend
ing the invitation was unanimous.
Visitors included David T. Roth
childs, of Columbus; Joseph Hol
lis, of Newnan; Arthur Gray and
Arthur Gray, Jr., of New York.
EXPECTED TO BE
NORTH CAROLINA’S
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A. W. McLean of Lumberton,
the Democratic nominee for gov
ernor of North Carolina, is virtu
ally assured of election, as his
state Democratic usually return* a large
banker majority. He is a
and hu held several
federal positions.
INCE MAY MAKE
T*YPAY’ O’CONNOR
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There is a remote possibility
that T. P. “Tay Pay” O’Connor,
dean of the house of common* in
point of service, will be a com
promise choice for the post of
Britain’s premier, In succession to
Hamsfy MacDonald. O'Connor
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'gkfcgfMarto c mmensuy m 11 of it OFwnrm
Stir$ the Imagination
Picture a place of inky darkness
and Intense cold; a region to which
the rays of the sun never have
penetrated; a barren waste seem
ingly unending, bereft of vegetation
and air, with oozy slopes inhabited
by queer, crawling creatures; a
place where no man could exist for
an Instant, where no work of man
could be placed without being
crushed to shapeless uselessness
under s weight greater than all the
mountains of the earth.
t Most of our globe Is like that, for
that Is the bottom of the sea, as
pictured by modern selenee, writes
Raymond J. Brown In the Popular
Science Monthly.
In round, numbers the earth’s sur
face consists of 57,000,000 square
miles of land and 140,000,000 square
miles of water. These figures,
however, give > hut a vague idea of
the real immensity of the vast,
marvelous sea.
The average depth of sea is five
times greater than the average
height of land above sea level over
the whole earth, the average depth
of the sea being more than two and
one-half miles, while the average
height of land is half a mile. If
Mount Everest, tallest mountain on
earth, five and one-half miles high,
were dropped into one of the deepest
parts of the ocean, its summit
would be submerged by more than
half a mile. In fact, If all the
land could be leveled off flush with
the sea, and all the debris dumped
(n the water, the sea would scarcely
be changed at all. There still would
be an ocean one and three-fourths
miles deep.
Once Malevolent, Now
Made to Serve Mankind
Some of the most useful’ of the
sifts of science were first revealed i
f0 mankind In a malevolent rather
than a benevolent aspect, London
Tit-Blts observes. But even the
most destructive agencies may In
the course of time be brought Into
the constructive service of the hu
man race.
Steel, man’s most useful metal,
made Its appearance In the form of
swords and spearheads for the kill
ing of man. Now we employ it for
the skeletons of skyscrapers and
steamships.
Petroleum was first employed as
"Greek fire” for setting ships
ablaze. Now It is employed, among
other things, as fuel for the pro
pulsion of ships.
Many of our modern medicines
were used by savages for poisoning
their arrow points. Strychnine and
aconite had this ill-omened origin.
Another arrow poison, obtained by
the savages from cassava juice, -is
hydrocyanic acid, which___In—the
hands of the modern metallurgist
extracts nine-tenths of the gold sup
ply of the World.
Arsenic, which during the Renais
sance was the fashionable means
of poisoning people, 1s now used for
the more laudable purpose of pois
oning plant pests and the parasites
of man.
Boaster “Taken Down n
On a football field a man with a
loud voice was boasting to a party
of admiring youngsters of the
doughty deeds he had dope on the
football field in days gone by. Sud
denly he turned his attention to
the hand.
“Ah!” he observed, “those fel
lows play decently, but they’ve fal
len off terribly since I was a mem
ber of the band.”
“What! ejaculated one of his
hearers, 'You played with that
lot?”
M Certainly,” was the reply; “I
was with them for years. I -
The crowd roared and the boast
ful one hastily retired on learning
that the hand In question was com
posed of harmless inmates of the
local lunatic asylum.—Edinburgh
Scotsman.
Beat Way to Vae Phone
Telephone companies for many
years have reiterated the advice
that users should talk directly inte
the transmitter, but recent test*
have for the first time set forth In
concrete terms the result of dis
( ,be - v ‘ n * ‘ h e toJuneriou. It wa*
found , that . to talk with the lips six
inches from the transmitter wa*
equivalent to inserting another 200
ml of line between the speaker
d the listener The best results
were obtained, the tests
when the mouth was only one-half
Inch from the transmitter and fare
ing directly into it, thus avoiding
deflection of «<mrd waves.—Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
Negative Beauty S'
perhups the most to he aimed at
in domestic architecture Is negative
beauty, a condition of things which
Invites or suggests* beauty to those
who are capable of the sentiment,
because a house, truly viewed, t*
hut a setting, a background, and Is
not to be pushed to the front and
made much of for its own sake. It
Is for shelter, for comfort, for
health and hospitality, to ent and
sleep in. to he horn In and to die
in. and it Is to accord in appearance
with homely everyday usages, and
with natural, universal objects and
scenes.—John Burroughs.
He Must Be Thin
Scout No. 1—Is the new fellow
very thin? " ’ v
Scout No. ’ '2-‘‘-Thtn! Say, h«
viuld crawl through a flute and not
dUslurt) n note.
Had Its Advantages
Caller (to deaf old lady)—It mnst
be quite an affliction to be hard of
hearing?
Old Lady—Eh? Not so bad a*
having to keep stilt and listen.
Waste of Time
“Aren't you going to contest her
■julf for divorce?”
.“What's the use? I never won
i an argument with 'hat woman in
j ;n > ufe - —Chicago New*:
One Washington, D. C., man
manages 39 dance orchestras and
his yearly payroll is more than
$1,000,000.
COTTON RECEI FOR
THE PAST W i ARE
LARGEST OF SEASON
The weekly report made for the
Griffin News by J. E. Maynard
shows that Spalding County has
received more cotton during the
past week than any previ ous re
port of ‘H gifi
,
The report in full follows: lliitts
Last Year Year
373 Received 956
644 Shipped 315
2807 Stock 4274
4327 Rcc’d to date 6223
30:25 Middling 22:50
A Frenchman has invented an
automobile that will jump ditches
six feet wide without being dam
aged.
Co-eds of Marshall college are
provided with small parlors in
which to receive gentlemen call
eta.
REMOVES PERU*
WELL AS PAIN F
“TWILIGHT Si
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} Dr. James T. Gwathmey is
given credit for the discovery of
la new fohn of "twilight sleep,"
under which mere than 1,000
•babies are said to have been
'brought into the world safely at
(City, Lying In Hospital, New York
without pain to their
[mothers. Dr. Gwathmey’4 dis
covery consists of the t use of
scopolomin and rborphine in a,
solution of Epsom, salts. The
salts make it possible to obtain
the same degree of immunity from
ipain with one-fourth to one-sixth
(the quantity of scopolomin, thus
reducing the danger of toxic ef
fects on the child.
HELP -KIDNEYS.
MORE WATER
Take Salt* To Flush Kidney*
and Help Neutralize Irri
tating Acids.
Kidney and bladder irritations
- acidity, ......
°^ ien .. H from . _ says „
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noted authority. The kidneys help
filter this acid from the blood and
j t0 the bladder, where
may remain , to irritate ... and in
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flame, causing a bumittg, scalding
8en8at ion, or setting up an irri
tation . .. at ... the neck of the bladder,
obliging you to seek relief two
or three times during the night.
The sufferer is in constant dread;
the water passes sometimes with
a scalding sensation and is very
profuse; again, there is difficulty
in voiding it. , ,
Bladder weakness, most folks
call it, because they can’t control
urination. While it is extremely
annoying, this is often one of the
most simplest ailments to over
come. Begin drinking lets of soft
water, also get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from your pharma
cist and take a tablespoonful in
a glass of water before breakfast.
Continue thi* for twe .or three
days. This will: help neutralize
the acids in the system "so they
no longer are a source of irrita
tion to the bladder and urinary
organs, which then act normal
again.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, and is
made from the acid of grapes am!
lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and is useed by thousands of
folks who are subject to urinary
disorders caused by acid irrita
tion. Jad Salts causes no bad
effects whatever.
Here you have a pleasant, ef
fervescent lithia water drink
which may quickly relieve your
bladder irritation. By all means
have your physician examine your
kidneys at least twice a year.—
(adv.)
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FOR RENT: ,
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B. B. Brown, Griffin, Ga as
FOR RENT—Two unfa
rooms with lights and wai m-k
738 W. Poplar street. F
F O R SALE: Large erys
mums, $1.00 dozen. 224 E.’
street. , | —
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Phone 162,-A. P. Patters* •
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yellow flowers; also eryaa ■§&
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mums, 50c dozen. 444 ’ *,\j
Fourth street.—
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ANY ARTICLE—fh our i
window, your choice, $1.00. *
day and Saturday. The last Si
sale this year. Depot Je *■ m
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FOR FIRST-class dress
ing call at 645 South Hill
$300 REWARD: No T?
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NOTICE 1
First installment city ____
taxes now
due and payable at office at city
manager.
E. P. BRDIGES, City Manage*,
Railroad Schedule
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrival and Dpearture ef Passen
ger Trains At Griffin, Ga.
The schedules are published as
information and are not
anteed:
North pK .
2:29 pm Atlanta-Sav'h 11:06 pm
4:30 am Atlanta-Sav'h 9:07 am
5:47 am' Chgo-Cin-Jax 11:55 pm
6:53 arn Chgo-St. L.-Jax 8:42 pm
9:01am Atlanta-Macon 5:20 pin
12:25 pm Atlanta-Macon 2:17
5:57 pm Atlanta-Alb’ny 12:
Chattanooga Division
171. r rom n n
2:30 pm Chattanooga 9:46 am
8:15 Cedartoown 6:25 pm
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Atlanta Points— ,
5:53 pm Easb-West 10:02 am
10:02 am C’l-bus-Ft. V’y 6:53 pm
LODGE DIRECTO]
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WARREN LODGE
No. 20, I. O. O. F., meets e
Monday night at 7:30 at W*
Lodge Hall. Visiting brothers
dially invited. R. A. Peel, Secre
tary; W. T. Atkinson. N. G.
MERIDIAN SUN LODGE
No. 26, F. A A. M. Regular -
ing Work Tuesday, in the degree*. Nov. 4th, Talk 7 p.
E. H. Searcy, Jr., P. M. by C. -
Scale*, W. M.; Bill Wells, £2
W. 0. w.
Meets every Thursday, 7:30 p. m.
Sovereigns, your camp need* your
presence. You will find your Clerk
all times at Slaton-Powell Cloth
ing Co. Visiting sovereigns wel
come. Come. L. J. Sauley, C. C.;
C. C. Stanley, Clerk. d 3-.
PYTHAGORAS CHAPTER
No. 10; R. A. M. Regular meet
ing second and fourth Thursday*,
7:30 p. m. Visitor* welcome. Wm.
T. Atkinson, H. P.; BUI Well*,
Secretary. ‘J:
BEN BARROW LODGE *
No. 587, F. & A. M. Regular
meetings first and third Thursday
nights in each month. Visiting
brothers invited. L. B. Guest, W.
M.; Clifford Grubbs. Secretary.
( Funeral Directory &11
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Frank S. Pittman -
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Modern Funeral Home.
112 W. Taylor St.
Office Phone 822. Res. Phone 68
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HAISTEN BROS. .
FUNERAL DIRECTOR8
AND EMBALMERS f V,
Griffin and Senoia, Ga.
Office Phone 575. Re*. Phone 68
E. D. FLETCHER
Funeral Director and *
Embalmer i
with
Griffin Mercantile Co. 1:
Office Phone 474 Res. Phone 481
The publicity committee of
Chamber of Commerce will dm
tonight at seven o’clock.