Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, November 17, 1924, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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A* ARRESTED FOR KILLING OF m Dallas, Ga., Nov. 17.—Tom and Calvin Bishop, young brothers, were arrested Saturday in con nection with the fatal shooting of Mrs. Robert Stewart Thursday night by a band of alleged liquor runners. The two men were arrested near Draketown, the scene of the fatal shooting, only a ffew hours after Mrs. Stewart nd died at. Wesley Memorial hospital in At lanta . Tom Gober, . vinisr yoang Draketown man, wax taken into custody Thursday night, shortly after a sheriff’s posse launched a sweeping search for M;s. Stew art’s slayers. Will Push Search. Mr. Stewart has resolved to push the hunt for his wife’s slay ers, and declares that he will not give up until the last one of them has been brought to justice. Four More Warrants Issued While the three men were being held at Buchanan, warrants charging murder were issued against four others Saturday. Their arrests are expected soon. THE GRIFFIN EXCHANGITE <4 UNITY FOR SERVICE” The American Red Cross is now in the midst of its annual roll call. The American Red Cross has service for its purpose, just as the Exchange clubs. So the roll call deserves our aid. Those in charge of the call in Griffin have done well, but there are many here who still have not an *awered the call. Dr. Green, of the national head quarters of the Red Cross, will be the guest of the club at our reg ular meeting this week. Dr. Green will not attempt to take any collection or raise any funds. He will be with us to explain the work being done by his organiza tion. He is a most interesting speaker and every member is urg ed to be present to hear him. The meeting last week when we celebrated Armistice Day, was a good one. We went a little over our allotted time, but we don’t do it often. The program com mittee ia making every effort to jwt some pep In the meeting and they are succeeding. If you don’t believe it’s a hard job getting up the programs, try it for a while. If you have any ideas about a program, give the com mittee the benefit of those ideas. They will appreciate it. If the program is a frost, Don’t help put the thing across, If the grub’s not what you like Threaten you will go on strike, Don't help for the love of Mike, Damn the Sec. The November issue of the Na tional Exchangite is now with us. Have you read this issue? If not, you have missed something. In it you will find a complete review of the Nashville convention and that convention must have been a whiz. Read about it. The mag azine is full of good stuff. Read it. Opportunity. “Who says I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in? Each day I stand outside your door And knock and bid you wake and let me in. Members of this club will be Interested in knowing that the Atlanta Exchange club has more than tripled its membership since the time we were their guests. In Dr. Quillian, the Atlanta club has a most able president and under his leadership the club is making great progress The Grif fin club congratulates the Atlanta club. YOU, this is personal, what are you doing to make this a jlf - X T Best Seamstress in Paris /* £i / fg IS p 5*545; m ; | wM j msm. ' i k 5.--V ;\y * * wmm \ 1 ■ mm m :■ 5 ; h, 8 ■ ■ ■ ;'v m; W: : ■w. mmm ■■■ m -mm Mm. 1 | x ■ It is no empty honor to win the title of "best seamstress in Pari*,” fashion capital oi the world. One of the incidental benefits |t a salary guarantee. The winner this year is Mile, Marcelle Guillon. r MANY NEW BUSINESS HOUSES TO OPEN UP in McDonough so ?n McDonough, Nov. 17.—T. A. St. John will open up a new cafe in the store room formerly occupied by Tolleson & Turner as a show room for a utom obile______ display, within the next few days. Jack Turner is preparing to in a stock of fancy and family groceries in the store room which was formerly occupied by Tolleson & Turner as office and stock room. W. O. Welch hr also contemplat ing moving his stock of goods in a store in the Ellis-Setzer build ing on Macon street. BOYS’ COTTON CLUB OF FAYETTE COUNTY TO HOLD SALE TUESDAY Fayetteville, Nov. 17.—About 30 bales of cotton will be auctioned off here Tuesday at 10 o’clock ^j|i the court house square. The staple is the product of the Boys’ Cotton Club of Fayette county and will be on the ground where everybody can inspect it. Everybody is invited to attend the sale and bid. better club? What are you do ing to make the meetings more attractive? What are you doing to build up a good, strong mem bership? No club is stronger than its members. The degree of success attained by this club de pends on you. Same time, same place, but a better program. Be there. Painting Brooklyn Bridge Again / ••• X : ■ |i H . . •'•X; ; A XT ' it 5.1! * •v. m £ I£ ■"XT i 5 lilt m XT x, 1 1 x i Y”i v .T ,y i • ; x, •■ ! ■r >s 55 ; X- *■ six-.. 5 ! ... • o* If ' 1 ■■■ Vv..;. V II yi ! S Wm X ■ 5 ; :S x-. C: w., '> . M X. Mi I ’aim inn the Brooklyn bridge Is an annual affair, yet every year when the painters are making their way through the great network of cables the crowds gather to watch them ut their hazardous work, This Dlcture was made from one of the towers. « GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS LOEB AND LEOPOLD TWO OF HIS WARDS 'M m I , j i ;: x -x- ' :■ I .Vx'x [ % VX % \m s . ij • V V • 1 %j: X'X v.X ;VK* •fTx . ; - >x :-x '•x :: - J' This is the man responsible for peeping Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. safely lock ed up. He is John ,L- Whitman, warden of the Illinois prison at Joliet/ The United States census of 1920 gives Georgia a ptyuulatio n of 1,642,697 native white persons. It likewise shows a total of 16,- 186 foreign born population, 7, 985 of these being in Atlanta and Savannah, Girls hired to dance with partners in New York dance halls must dance an average of 70 times a night in order to earn $20 a week. Jasper National Park in Cana da has an area of 4,440 square miles and is the biggest “play ground” in the world. TO FORNUaiY ASK METHODISTS 10 A formal invitation will be ex tended to the North Georgia Methodist conference, which opens in Atlanta Wednesday, to hold its 1325 session in Griffin. . This aiftyon was taken at the quarterly conference at the First Methodist church here Sunday night following an address by Secretary C. C. Thomas, of the Chamber of Commerce, who re ported that file trade body was to land the conference for Griffin and that the Rotary and Exchange clubs had indorsed the movement. Want Yarbrough Back. Resolutions were passed by the conference asking for the return here next conference year of the Rev. John F. Yarbrough, who has served the First church for the past two years. The Rev. Mr. Yarbrough and other Methodist pastors will leave tomorrow for the conference, all of them carrying excellent reports from their various charges for the past year. "H - ■>} /-fr- V | Pomona News The Pomona Sewing Club will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Dupree at Sunny Side. There will be a quilting party for the purpose of making quilts for” the Three- orphans’ homes, Methodist, Baptist and Christian. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith, of Concord, spent Thursday with Mr. and, Mrs. Eddie Sutherland. Mrs. Good Manley, Mrs. Charles Griffin, Mrs. Ella Andrews and Mrs. David Griffin spent Thursday shopping in Griffin. Mrs< W. L. Nutt is improving after the' painful accident /which she recently suffered. Harry Nixon, of Valdosta, was the guest of Bill Patterson follow ing the Valdosta-Griffin fo'otball game Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Goodrum spent Sunday with Mrs. J. A. Goodrum at Birdie. Mrs. B. F. Ogletree and Mrs. R. T. Patterson spent Monday shop ping in Griffin. Miss Ethel Rawls, of Macon, and Mr. and Mrs. George Branch, of Atlanta, were recent guests of Mrs. W. L. Nutt and Mrs. Lafe Wheat. Walter Binford, of Savannah, spent Sunday with his Mrs. W. B. Binford. Mrs. Good Manley was the cent guest of Mrs. R. L. Richy. The Sunbeam Club will meet usual Saturday afternoon. West Griffin Mrs. W. C. Lifsey, who has sick for some time, continues quite ill at her home. Mrs. Charles Waller has ed from the hospital and is improved. The B. Y. P. U. of the Baptist church will put on a gram for Oak Hill church on Sunday. Plan to be present. We regret very much that L. Poteet and family have to East Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Floyd family have moved and will be home to their many friends on Experiment street. Dewey Shepherd, who has seriously ill for a week, is improved. Edward Reid, of Atlanta, the guest of his parents, Mr. Mrs. J. E. Reid, Sunday. CIRCUS ENTERTAINS CHAIN-GANG Some thirty odd county victs were spectators at the Floto circus Saturday night guests of the show County Warden Randall pied a seat with the men. is the first time the jpnvicts attended a performance of kind. ■-:■■■■ = BOOTLEGGER BARON SELLS STOCK IN RUM SMUGGLING SCHEME 1 I tu SftV I ; :w mm ■ !£$ w ■ % : ■ 1 : - is®) ^ 1 Sir Brodrick Hartwell, popu larly known as ‘‘the Bootlegger Baronet," has won the legal right to sell stock in a rum-running cor poration in England, and to give his bank, Barclay’s, as a referenc* to., prospective stockdmyers POOR ENGLISH BOY FINDS $50,000 BUT 1 CANNOT SPEND IT Manchester, t Eng., Nov. 17.— L^to the sad tale of James Tip pitt, ^sgpar old porter's assis tant. James, or Jim, as he pre fers to known, found a purse containing ten thousand pounds, or approximately $50,000. He started out for a royal good time but the smallest note in the purse was for a hundred pounds and every time he tried to get it changed ___he was—t hreatened -with arrest. l j He kept this up for two days and then gave up the struggle. He turned the money over to the police and went back to his job of portering. There are about • 500,000,000 acres of forest land in Canada, many parts of which have not yet been touched. Mittens and other knit goods made in Austria are sold exten sively in England and the Neth erlands. A PIECE OF PAPER I J^INCOLN’S eniotions on a piece of paper gave Gettysburg a gem. Due to honesty. The United States Treasurer’s name on a piece of paper is worth countless millions any day. Due to credit. A notary’s seal on a piece of paper keeps faith between two meft. Due to a pledge. A reporter’s write-up on a piece of paper affects the intimate lives of millions. Due to news, pledge, credit, honesty—all four! Your acceptance of advertisements, your letting them guide in buying, saving, putting comfort in your home—is due to sense. Advertisers are pledged to serve you right. Their wares justify faith. 4 Advertisements are a message to you. They are are a pledge of good faith—of value offered. Read them. Remember—an advertysed article must make good. Monday, November 17, 1924. PINNED UNDER A DEAD BODY, MAN FREES SELF, AVERTS SECOND CRASH Miami, Fla., Nov. 17.— Pinned beneath the body of a dead woman passenger and made almost unconscious by the shod; of his fall, A. R. Davis, of New Smyrna, Fla., flagman of the ill-fated Flori da East Coast train which left tha tracks at Wabaso Friday night and took a toll of four dead and eighteen injured, averted more serious results I, by freeing himself and suc succcssfully flagging a south bound train which was bearing down upon the scene of the wreck. With but fan minutes to spare, the flagman extricated himself, made his way the length of the wreck, obtained signal flares, and flagged the oncoming train. ILLINOIS TOURISTS IN AUTO COLLISION HERE FINALLY PAY THE BILL 1 j Everett Daniel and Mrs., Daniel I were detained by Policeman Smith at the police booth late Saturday for several hours pend ing the settlement of an automo bile accident which occurred at i the corner of Hill street and! Bank Alley. The machine in which Daniel, his wife and a party of friends were traveling from Illinois to Florida, collided with a truck driven by Dewey Cowan, of the City Wholesale Company. The running board of the truck was badly damaged and a spring in Daniel’s car was broken. Cowan stated he would settle the case for $5 but Daniel in sisted it was a fifty-fifty propo sition and remained here for sev eral hours before agreeing to pay the money. DISTANT ACQUAINTANCE << You lifted your hat to the young lady we just passed. Do you know her?” .. No, but my brother does, and I’m wearing his hat.” FORTUNE GONE, SOCIETY WOMAN LEARNS TO WORK t EpRjg i v m $ ■*: •' Xv 5;: 89: \ ■''' <» •:jx : > V. When the family fortune van ished, Edythe Charlick, of New York, society woman, put her pride in her pocket and estab hshed a nurse’s agency to supply fastidious mothers with first-class nurses for children. She has been very successful. S. G. BAILEY 114 E. Solomon St. % Real Estate and Insurance Get in touch with me for CITY AND FARM PROPERTIES S. G. BAILEY Estate & Insurance Office 2 Res. 1