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4-: fizz?» 252;}: 4., : Adbfifl... h... ' s, t - : St. Louis, Nov. 12,—St. Lou isans who have recently received by mail pathetic appeals from Bobby Hubbs, of Asheville, N. C., 1 will be interested in knowing <* Bobby” is not as destitute as letters might indicate. In fact he has his own car and . riding horse. Father Tubercular. The appeals for charity were based on the undisputed fact that “Bobby’s” father, C. T. Hubbs, is tubercular. This fact appears to have been capitalised widely, ap peals being broadcast over the country. Some of the St. Louisans turn ed their letters over to the Char ities Bureau of the Chamber bf Commerce, which investigated and reports as follows: $75 Rent. The Hubbs family is paying $75 monthly rent on its residence. Hubbs has an automobile and two riding horses. The automobile, a seven passen ger car, is alternately driven by “Bobby” and a negro chauffeur. “Bobby" attends a business col lege, going and coming in his own automobile. Mail in Sacks. The mail, resulting from appeals for charity, is hauled the Hubbs home in an automobile daily in large sacks. Hubbs, asked to reconcile the charity letters and the apparent luxury of his life, said he did not want to be on any regular char . ity list and have things doled out to him, but prefers to make his own appeal. Send Out Warning. The National Tuberculosis As sociation has sent out warnings to the public not to help Hubbs and his son, as they are not in need, Hubbs being able to pay for medical attention and “Bobby M for his education. ilJil »LE LINES, CLEVER TRIMMING SPELL ' r s. X t Y O ■ MERCER GLEE CLUB At HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM FRIDAY* T NOVEMBER 14th AT 8:15 P.M. k i’' 5SS . .........-.......... ... ................................-...... ■— ——................... Even the Little Burro Clowns For the Jolly Circus Girl £‘4*- ; m jyr; :: , 12 X :• *> ; ■■ V - f ■ & w? Sgl WM |i| ■ jg m ■ ••• r ■ , 'V f . .%>! x i w . •x. m ; W0A v. ; , ;x : '.....: XXX , . h IS. } 4 !(i, i? M i ill H fsH < mm a : > ! ii ■ !!(jj HI, I i : nl iimmu | i : ) n m * | } i 'ji m ill lift . Sis! I ! tell I <5^ )• ”CQRT*&LHJ$ m ^ajn0 aret-LA Ro \ K» O There’s no jollier girl among the two hundred woman arenic performers with Sells-Floto circus than Stella Rowland, and it’s no wonder “Applesauce,” the burro, stands for a clown hat on his ear to make it pleasant for the cam era man and Stella. He, like every last one of the eleven hundred folks that troupe under the banners of Sells-Floto, which, by the way, comes to Grif fin Saturday of this week, would do anything to boost her good cheer radiation. Miss Rowland, an^ aerialist and elephant traiuet, heads the big Spalding County Centenarian Visits Atlanta for the First Time In Fifty Years; Sees Sights Atlanta, €la4 Nbvember 12.— << Uncle Billy” Barber, of Spald ing county, who plans to celebrate next March his one hundredth birthday, was in Atlanta Tuesday “lookin’ around’” and seeing the sights of the city which he had not beheld in 59 years. The aged man explained that he had passed through here several times, but this was the first time in half a century he had had a chance to stop over. ii Uncle Billy” is a staunch member of the Mt. Zion Baptist church, near Concord, and a de vout student of the Bible. He never attended school a day in his life, he declared, and never smoked a cigarette or ci gar, never got drunk or danced a step—to which he attributes his unusual span of years. Mr. Barber was born in Clark couhty on March 8, 1825, and his entire boyhood ^ spent in Geor gia, with the exception of four years when he fought in the Civil War under General Lee in Vir ginia. Mr. Barber’s mother died when he was three weeks of age, and he was reared by his grandfather, the late William Barber. “Uncle Billy’* Is the father of 11 children, five boys and six girls, six of whom are now living he declared. He married at the age of 20, and has been a miller since the Civil War. % Mr. Barber is staying with his grandaughter, Mrs. Thomas GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS | show street parade this season, j escorted by a dozen generously garbed girl trumpeters, Because of its epochal importa tions of all the famous European wild animal acts, the Sells-Floto circus puts out a parade now just twice as long as does any other circus in America, Look at the wild animals in street parade this year, and you’ll be convinced, for there are literally hundreds of them. They'll take part in “The Bride and the Beasts,” the astounding, hair raising spectacle, which opens the big show performances. Aiken, 109 West Harris street, and will remain here until about the middle of December, it was said. To Ride Street Car. He intends to ride on a street car and an elevator, too—two things he has never tried he said —and will visit all points of in terterest in the city before re turning home. MRS. WISE TO SPEND 2 MONTHS IN JAIL HERE; 10 IN M1LLEDGEVILLE Mrs. A. L. Wise, who was fined $200 or sixty days in jail in the federal court in Atlanta recently for violation of the prohibition law, will spend two months in jail here. "She will then go to Mil to serve the ten months imposed on her by Judge Darsey for having liquor in her according to Sheriff who has received orders that effect from federal authori — ------- SLAYER OF HUSBAND IS GIVEN TERM IN PRISON Middleburg, Pa., Nov. 12.—The sentence of 10 to 20 in the state penitentiary imposed Monday on Mrs. S. Willow, recently, con of murder in the second in the killing of Harvey Wiljpw, her husband. , SURRENDERS IN AFTER PROMISING WIFE HE WOULD GO STRAIGHT Atlanta, Nov. 12.—(By the As sociated Press.)—Ed Ellis, one time lieutenant of Floyd Wood ward, head of a bun?o syndicate operating here in 1919 and fleec ing scores out of millions, has re turned to face the music. Under Fulton county and fed eral indictments, he surrendered this morning and made bond. He says that he promised his wife before her death. in Mexico City that he would go straight. m 225 MEMBERS OF I. W. W. RUN OUT OF Seattle, Wash., Nov. 12.—About 225 alleged members of the I. W. W. were loaded into six auto mobile trucks near Concrete, Wash., Monday by Sheriff Conn, of Skag county, and a force of deputies, taken to the Snohomish county line, unloaded, and told to keep going. MRS. HARDING BETTER Marion, O., Nov. 12.—(By the Associated Press.)—Mrs. Wafren G. 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A ikiikikAAiA A 4 i i AA i A A A ■*- -*■ ■A» WOMAN *N IS LEADER SUIT OP INDIANS pQR LAND PAYMENTS Wm $ tel V mmm : <■: -V . X M I; ,4 x m X ;X YU X m f * ' ^ x ;.. X. — m : ■ mm ■ > - : : : -• wm. •x. & » Mrs. Laura C. Kellogg, Wis consin author, and Oneida In dian, is heading a, group of In dians of the ‘‘Six Nations’* in a movement to sue the government for large sums of money in pay ment for lands surrendered by the tribes to the states many years ag* hours last night, according to her physician’s bulletin this morning. Wednesday, November 12, 1924.. INMATE OF POOR HOUSE SUES MATE FOR DIVORCE; ALSO WANTS ALIMONY Los Angeles, Nov. 12.—John A. Hicks, an inmate of the county poor farm* asks a divorce from his wife, Annette P. Hicks, and alimony of $100 a month in a pauper’s complaint on file in su perior court here today. Mrs. Hicks, the complaint states, en joys the income fTom property valued at $30,000 while the plain tiff is compelled to live on char ity. ■f There is a total capital of $485,200,300 invested in Georgia manufactures, $129,045,822 of this amount being invested in textile mills which leads all other indus tries. So acute is the housing short age in Glasgow, Scotland, that as many as 12 people are living in single apartment dwellings. Nineteen billion linear feet of moving picture films was ship ped from this country to foreign lands in one month recently. If starch moistened with a little warm water is applied to a bruise it will prevent the flesh from be coming discolored. DIAMONDS IN TEETH MAKE MARK OP HIM SO HAS ’EM YANKED! i m :• : iw : :;■/ •xy » x> ■ v i 7 * s i . < Xx ; : wk X. / # : Samuel H. Lefkowit*,' New York clothing manufacturer, is in Paris to have dentists there re Wove the diamonds which adornj two of his front teeth. They have| caused him to be prey of holduji men, he says. Practically every country in the world now uses the Panama Ca nal, and the bulk of the foreign trade is from the ^.vest coast of South America.