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Eight Boys Clothes STRENGTH—DURABILITY o ij Q A J Is \ v m i R5S A boy is a boy; and noth $ng he has demands as much attention as his clothes. They must first of all be of good fabric, and secondly they must be tailored correctly in order to withstand the strain aund be able to ‘‘come out" •till looking good. We have just this kind. $7l? $10£ $121“ fAade by the Perfection process of manufacture. Griffin Mercantile Company PERSONAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. George Barrow and Miss Nell Barrow, of Phila delphia, have arrived in Griffin to apend some time with Mrs. B. N. Barrow, Sr., at her home near the tity. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Erwin, whose marriage was a recent event, •pending n few days with ©telia Crabb on Solomon street. Mrs. Joseph D. Boyd Tuesday in Atlanta with friends. Mrs. John Jenkins, of W. Va., who has been the of Mrs, Butler Walker, on Hill street, has gone to tp join Dr. Jenkins for the my HERE AT LAST! The Lets , X s Biggest Picture Thursday AND r of Air Time l Friday i i X * v, 4 Greatest Screen Attraction - / . of the Me II ™UxiChanoi Phr,rated *| V &*u t t v. A UNIVERSAL Special Orchestra Music of the North Georgia Methodist Conference. to Atlanta to join Dr, Jenkins for the sessions of the North Georgia Methodist Conference. Miss Willie Mae Xierbow, of East Griffin, and Tommie Cook, of Orchard Hill, visited friends and relatives on North Fifth street Sunday evening. John Hammond, who is attend ing school at Georgia Tech in At lanta, will spend the week end in Griffin with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Woods Hammond, on West Poplar street. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner and Miss Annie Gardner visited Mrs. Ben Futral, Miss Maggie Flournoy and Harry Phinazee on Fifth street Sunday afternoon. Miss Mary Emma Phillips, of Atlanta, will arrive next week for a visit to Miss Emma Burks on the Jackson road near Griffin. Col. W. E. H. Searcy and Judge W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., left Monday for Upson county to attend court for two weeks. The Epworth League of the First Methodist church will give a 'possum hunt Thursday evening. Pat Power returned to Atlanta Sunday night after a short visit to relatives in Griffin.' Fleming Touchstone, who is at tending the University of Georgia, has returned to resume his studies in Athens, after spending the week end in Griffin with home folks. Miss Ella Ward, of Concord, ar rived in Griffin Tuesday for a vis it to her brother, violin Ward, and family on South Hill street. L. C. Hensiee is visiting his son, Baxter Hensiee, in Hayti, Missouri. Miss Sara Slade, who was in jured last week when a car struck her, is improved and able to walk without a stick. J. D. Ruff, of Gray’s Crossing, spent Tuesday in Griffin on bus iness. Mrs. C. B. McKenzie, of Thom aston, was shopping in Griffin Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Prather and their son and daughter, of 1 Atlanta, motored to Griffin GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS day and spent the afternoon with Mrs. J. T. Nunnally and Mrs. Carl Prather. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Prather, who will be their g-est for several days. Mrs. Albert Fisher spent Mon day in Atlanta with friends. Newt Fowler, of Thomaston, made a business trip to Griffin Tuesday. W. T. Scott and Grady Elling ton spent Tuesday in Atlanta on business. Miss Mattie Lou Fowler, oi Thomaston, spent Tuesday shop ping in Griffin. Mrs. W. B. Watson and Miss Sadie Kilpatrick spent Sunday ir Atlanta with friends. Misses Gussie and Ida Conkle of Lovejoy, were visitors to Grif fin Tuesday. Lewis Brown, of made a business trip to Tuesday. Miss Martha Elliott, of mont, spent Tuesday shopping Griffin. W. H. Scott, of Brooks, Tuesday in Griffin on business. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reagan, McDonough, arrived in Monday afternoon for a short visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, on Solomon street. James Conkle, of Lovejoy, was a visitor to Griffin Tuesday. Mrs. Tom Elliott was among those from Meansville shopping in Griffin Tuesday. Mrs. J. D. Ruff, of Gray’® Crossing, was shopping in Griffin Tuesday. E. L. Hooten, of Senoia, made a business trip to Griffin Tues day. Mrs. C. Clower and Misses Wil lie Mae and Marian Clower, of Lovejoy, were visitors to Griffin Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fisher as their guests for the Mr. and Mrs. M. 0. Roberts, near Shiloh, Ga. Mrs. W. B. Brown, of ville, spent Tuesday shopping Griffin. Mrs. F. L. Hooten was the Senoia shoppers in Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Farris, of Tampa, Fla., arrived in Griffin Tuesday for a visit to her sister, Mrs. Henry Smith, on South Hill street. Mrs. W. H. Scott and Miss Ma rian Scott, of Brooks, spent Tues day shopping in Griffin. Mrs. J. W. Slade, who has been spending ten days in Bir mingham with her son and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Slade, is expected tq return home Wed nesday night or Thursday. Miss Floe Henderson, who has been visiting friends in Atlanta, spent Monday night rn Griffin with Miss Lucile Flemister. Miss Henderson returned to her home in Round Oak this ■‘tnorning. GREEDY BOYS STRIP AUTOMOBILE; EVEN CARRY OFF ENGINE New York, Nov. }8.— Accused of stripping \n automobile of every possible removable part and fixture, three Yonkers youths were arraigned in Yonkers city court on charges of petit larceny. Edward Fowler, of Yonkers, said the boys went to his auto mobile, which he had left in a lot in Yonkers, and robbed it of « coil, magneto, engine, hood, cush ions, steering wheel, fan top and practically every other part they could remove. The boys said they thought the car had been abandoned and that they needed the parts for their ,own machine. l 7 Lone Pine, Cal., Nov. 18.—An army of ranchers without guns, with no acknowledged leader, but acting in unison, backed by wives and daughters, last night was camping on the Alabama gate of the Los Angeles aqueduct, defy ing all county and city authorities in its determination to waste Los Angeles water until the city shall make a settlement of the *. water war” that has raged for years in Owens River Valley. Late yesterday Sheriff Charles Collins, of Inyo county, served the assemblage with the county superior court’s order designed restrain the ranchers from fering with the aqueduct, but had no appreciable affect on situation. Without a Lea'er. Copies of the legal were handed to each man. put them in their pockets. threw them into the where hundreds of gallons v/ater are rushing by every ute away from, instead of the city of Los Angeles. ‘‘Where is your leader?” little army was asked. “We have none, but we are ing together,” was the reply. big city has fooled us long enough, taking the water the land and letting the land waste. We’re going to stay these gates until Los city comes to terms and nobody who can put us off, least nobody but the militia. ft u But,” said one man, and threat was echoed by a chorus a dozen hurt, “in shoving us of here, it will mean the destruc tion of the Los Angeles aque duct,” So' far as could be observed there' wa* not a gun nor a pistol in the whole crowd and the sheriff was assured on every hand that, contrary to statements reported to have been made by the repre sentatives of the city of Los An geles, there was not an ounce of dynamite on the Alabama Gate site. Camp Fires Burning. Camp fires sprang up all round the big spillway as supper time drew near in the valley, and wives, mothers and daughters from the ranches throughout the district began preparing the meal in old-time pioneer fashion over the open flames. Bedding arrived in large quan tities for the “army of occupa tion,” and every evidence was ap parent of an intention to stay on the job until it is finished or un til the militia comes. In reply to an oft repeated question as to what proportion of the ranch pop ulation was behind the seizure and opening of the waste gate, the correspondent was assured by more than a score of men that “from 95 to 100 per cent of the Owens River Valley approved of the move.” FROM SOLDIER, WRITTEN 60 YEARS AGO, IS FINALLY RECEIVED Medina, N. Y., Nov. 18.—A let ter written Match 13, 1864, by a Civil War soldier at Fort Mc Henry, Baltimore, Md., has just been received in Medina. Thg letter wan written by James Fisk to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fisk, and i,t has been delivered to his sister, Mrs. Sarah Smith, of Shelby, a hamlet south of Medina, who now is 84 years old. The parents died long ago. The only explanation for the delay is that the letter was held for the censor and laid aside with army records and overlooked. AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE A Buick car driven by O. L. Colquitt and a Ford with Ben I Joiner at the wheel collided at the intersection of Hill and Taylor streets yesterday afternoon. Both machines were damaged, but the two drivers escaped injury. I Sunny Side News i --..............- - — -........- -------------------* Sunny Side, Ga., Nov. 18.—With a large number of possums fat tening, Georgia yams selected and the program approved, indications are than the banquet to be held in the Sunny Side high school au ditorium on Friday evening of this week will be a brilliant suc cess. The exercises will begin promptly at 7:45 o’clock with Rev. B. L. Betts, pastor of the Griffin circuit, presiding as toast master. Admission is by ticket at 75 cents per person or one dollar per couple of lady and gentleman, the profits of which will be applied to the fund being raised to paint the Sunny Side Methodist church, which has long been considered an important land mark in upper middle Georgia. A large crowd is expected to be in attendance to participate in the enjoyment. Richard B. Crowder, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Crow der, experienced a miraculous es cape from serious injury and pos sible death Sunday morning when a bicycle on which he was riding along the paved highway was completely demolished by an auto mobile with a negro at the steer ing wheel. The accident was ap parently unavoidable and the driv er of the car was allowed to pay for the bicycle and proceed on his journey. Judge and Mr*. John S. Ack bor spent Saturday night and Sunday at Snow, Dooly county, where Judge Darsey delivered an address on the occasion of annual Home-Coming Day, Prior to en gaging in the practice of law in Griffin, Judge Darsey was prin cipal of the Snow high school for a number of years. Personals. Mr. and Mr*. John . Hi. Malaier, of Pineville, Wilcox county, Saturday night with the former’s parents, Judge smd Mrs. J. Hope Malaier, in the northwest corner of Spalding county. Mrs. Hatley Stanfield and chil dren, of Bolingbroke, and Mrs. Eugene Anderson, of Iler.ry coun ty, were the guests last of Judge L. C. Darsey and William Minter, a* student the Georgia School of ogy, Atlanta, spent last and Sunday with his father, W. T. Minter, and family here. Frank White, son of Mr. Mrs. W. A. White, is from injuries sustained in last Saturday evening struck, by an automobile. Richard A- Minter spent day afternoon in Atlanta. Sunny Side was well ed at the Sells-Floto circus Griffin last Saturday. | See These fle* New Overcoat j s I i Styles BoBa s ■'V] F m 1 r ’I 9 = THEY ARE ALL-WOOL 7 illllgpgp ¥ * AND YOU’LL GET VALUE & i % r 4 ~ BEYOND ANYTHING im YOU EXPECTED t 1 i \ $ 25 . 00: And Up L U / (£) Hart^Schaffncr & Mar* Qaton-powdl CLOTHING COMPANY l I £ 7 : Oden's and, 'Boys' Outfitters illUMMIUt Ututitwm»IUttIllimtiliflt>Hlil«MlHtini[lUitMWMlIlHHipBIMM Tuesday, November 18, 1924. TODAY Let* &pr LAST TLME «W«N6-' 7 Clara with N. Bow K > «?, r - 0 i Robert Agnew i f Myrtle Stedman Huntley Gordon WEDNESDAY id ^ ^ Harriet in brilliant Comstocks Photoplay ceietr&ed **orm novel - - - ] a; THE WO cy)itK r JUNE E BEVERLYJ&YNE A 'V V, /. JOHN ROCH Mil' GREAT MOTION PICTURE COMING TO THE ALAMO “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” one of the greatest mo tion pictures ever produced, will be shown in Griffin Thursday and Friday of this week, giving - the people of this section the first opportunity of seeing this massive production which swept into over night fame in New York and played to record breaking houses all over the country and hailed by critics everywhere as one of the finest achievements of the screen. More than $1,500,00# was spent to make this Victor Hugo classic. It was shown for six months in New York. Bread is being made from coa. BUICK 100% Values We have ten used cars. Seven cars we guarantee first-class condition; 3 as is. SMALL CASH PAYMENT BALANCE EASY TERMS SLATON MOTOR CO. BUICK DEALER 109 East Solomon St. Phone 680 666 is a prescription for COLDS, GRIPPE, DENGUE, HEADACHES. CONSTIPA TION, BILIOUSNESS. It is the most speedy remedy we know. For Sale at reduced price, 6 va cant lots on West Solo II on St. If interested, see me at once. e, s. McDowell Real Estate and Insurance