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e ball in New York. The children in the revue will at Car
a special performance at the White House for President and Mrs Coolidae * ‘ Winners will
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f Narcotic Peddlers and Addicts Both
Will Be Punished in Soviet Russia
Moscow, Nov. 25.—Although So
viet Russia recently declined to
the League of Nations' opium
commission, the Bolshevik author
ities have promulgated severe
measures for the suppression of
the illicit drug traffic.
' I Not only will any person con
victed of selling narcotics be im
prisoned or deported for a long
period, but all his property will
be confiscated and the offender de
prived of citizenship.
Consumers of forbidden drugs
will be dealt with only a little
less severely than venders. They
■will be quarantined in special anti
narcotic institutions at hard labor
and released only upon certificates
from physicians.
The opium and cocaine habits
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Photograph of Harry Wright,
who fell frourtbe fifth floor of the
Conway building, Chicago, but
landed on his feet and laughed
when hornfled spectator* came to
pick him up, although his ankles
were broken. Wright served in the
navy during the war and made a
specialty of dtying, und consequent
ly knew how to get his balance In
air.
ID McCOY WEEPS
UNASHAMED AS BODY
p§ OF MOTHER IS BURIED
Los Angeles, Nov. 25.—Kid
McCoy wept unashamed Monday
at the funeral of his mother,
Mrs. Mayy Selby, 75, died last
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Friday. Physicians said heart
trouble was the direct cause of
death.
| Monday a special court order
released the fighter. At the Lit
tle Church of the Flowers, in
Glendale, McCoy broke down and
sobbed bitterly.
my best friend,” he
said over and over during the
days immediately after the kill
ing of Mrs. Teresa Mors, his last
sweetheart.
As his two guards ushered him
back to his ceil McCoy was talk
ing softly to himself.
U She was my best friend,” he
was saying.
It is estimated that there are
about 21,000 factories and busi
ness establishments in this coun
try subject to hazards from dust
explosions.
f The Tanana river bridge in
||f Alaska is the second longest sin
gle span railroad bridge in the
world.
Feeding fish by electric light
is an experiment being tried in a
hatchery in the middle west.
There are 207 steam silk spita
ping mills in China.
have been growing at such a dis
turbing rate in Russia, even among
children, that the Soviet author
ities have decided to establish an
anti-narcotic hospital in Moscow
for boys and girls; also 10 dispen
shries for adults, where Ameri
can an^ other methods of curing
the drug craving will be adopted.
Opium Dens Raided.
f Several opidm dens and cocaine
haunts were recently raided by
the Moscow police and a large
number of arrests were made.*
In one of these resorts more
than 40 persons, Including 17 wo
men and several minors were
found.
In discussing the narcotic habit
which has grown in inverse pro
portions to the suppression of the
liquor traffic, Dr. Peter Shlomo
vitsch, chief of the narcotic sec
tion of the Soviet health depart
ment blamed Germany “for this
European calamity, as the German
manufacturers of narcotics strive
by every means to supply cocaine
and other narcotics to the world
markets."
WIDOW OF PIONEER
FILM DIRECTOR TAKES
OVER HIS STUDIO JOB
Culver City, Calif., Nov. 25.—
The first woman motion picture
producer has arrived.
Mrs. Thomas H. Ince, widow of
the pioneer film man, Monday as
sumed charge of the big Ince stu
dio here.
“I believe that being helpful in
the work he loved will help me to
bear up under my personal
sorrow,” she said as she took over
the program of production plan
net} by her husband.
Mrs. Ince does not know wheth
er she will continue in the work
after her immediate duties are
completed. Production was at top
speed Monday, with more than 300
people on the lot.
Because of a shortage of bris
tles in Russia and China, Ger
many’s brush industry is facing
stagnation.
Trying Novel Method of Eviction
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Because a tribe of Gypsies who had rented a house In Chicago per
sisted In using the.place for Illegal fortnne telling, a real estate firm
started to brick up the doors and windows. The Gypsies refused to move
out but made such a clamor that the police came and stopped the brick
layers.
HARRY D. SADDLER
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WLS of Chicago was installed by
the Sears-Roebuck company to keep
the farmers- in close touch with the
doings of the city. All the latest
quotations and topics of general In
terest are broadcast under the di
rection of Harry D. Saddler, who is
ihown above.
LIST OF ASSIGNMENTS
OF FORMER GRIFFIN
METHODIST PASTORS
Former Griffin pastors were as
signed „ to the following appoint
ments at the close of the North
Georgia Methodist conference in
Atlanta Monday afternoon:
W. L. Pierce, Atlanta district.
H. B. Mays, Norman Park.
W. A. Shelton, professor in
Emory University. %
C. O. Jones, superintendent An
ti-Saloon League.
Fletcher Walton, held represen
tative Young Harris College.
A. M. Pierce, editor Wesleyan
Christian Advocate.
H. M. Quillian, Lakewood
Heights.
Thomas M. Elliott, Oakland
City.
J. C. Adams, superintendent ru
ral Sunday school work.
C. V. Weathers, Devereaux.
W. P. King, Gainesville.
G. F. Venable, Monroe.
Nath Thompson, Young Harris.
J. S. Jenkins,. LaGrange.
W. T. Irvine, Newnan.
The weight of the earth as to
that of the sun is as one to 324,
000.
Bamboo will grow forty feet in
six weeks.
GRIFTON DAILY NEWS
MAN ARRESTED HERE
AFTER FREE-FOR-ALL
IN MONROE COUNTY
A man giving his name as Tom
Kinard, was arrested here late
Monday afternoon on a charge of
being drunk on a public highway.
Three other men and a woman
were in a car with Kinard, but
no charges were preferred against
them. All were said to be from
Atlanta.
The arrest was made by Officers
Brown and Woodruff on the Macon
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Store Closed Thursday—
■a Thanksgiving Day
TO PRODUCE TWO DAYS SALE IN ONE
Many Special Values Will Be Featured Throughout The Store For
EDNESDAY < HOPPERS
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REDUCED FOR can ware. One of these sets will help you get more real en
WEDNESDAY’S SALE ONLY joyment out of your Thanksgiving Dinner, not to mention
all the other dinners to follow. These sets have Coin Gold
72-inch Genuine Irish Linen Table Damask in several patterns, bands and handles. Pattern as illustration above. We are
$3.50 $1.99 also showing this pattern in open stock. You can buy one
quality piece or a hundred. PRICED TO SELL FAST.
WEDNESDAY ONLY WEDNESDAY ONLY THANKSGIVING DINNER SPECIALS
39 c 25' Large Head Large Stalk Cran- Select Hood River
50c Tub Proof Suiting, 36 35c French Dress Gingham, Lettuce Celery Apples
inches Lavender, wide, in Peach, Pink, Blue, Tan 32 inches wide, in beautiful berries
•ran: land White. patterns. 12</zc 1214c 15c qt. 48c dz.
If EDNESDAY SPECIALS READY-TO-WEAR
DEPARTMENT
One Lot One Lot
SUIT CLEARANCE LINGERIE WAIST SILK BLOUSE I ,
Good styles and values up to $50. Values $3.50 Values $10.00
up to up to
WEDNESDAY’S PRICE WEDNESDAY’S PRICE WEDNESDAY’S PRICE
S|0°° $J.OO . $ 3-00
SCOUT SHOES FOR BOYS SPECIAL SHOE SALE
$1.89 FOR 39 LADIES
Boys, you’ll need a pair of these Elk Skin Scout Shoes Thurs
day when you go hunting. Real values; regular price $2.25
and $2.50. Patent Leather and Satin Pump: Junior Louis Heels
MEN’S ELK SKIN SCOUT AND HEAVY WEDNESDAY’S PRICE
WORK SHOES ONLY $1.50
Limitless Number
• $2.25 $2.89
Regular Prices $2.50 to $4.00 COME EARLY AND BE ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES
Griffin Mercantile Co.
Known For Good Values
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road after reports had been re
eeived here that the party was
Engaged in a free-for-all fight in
Monroe county, One woman is
said to have left the car before
the officers arrived.
A small quantity of liquor is
said to have been found in the
car.
It is estimated that half the ra
dium, treatments are given free.
New York City uses 60,000,000
quarts of ice cream a year.
November 25, 1924,
GIRLS’ SERVICE CLUB
TO GIVE THANKSGIVING
PROGRAM HERE TONIGHT
The Gipls’ Service Club will give
a Thanksgiving program at their
regular meeting tonight.
The meeting wiil be held in the
BaraCa room of the First Metho
dist church at 7:30.
Group No. 3, Miss Katherine
Rogers, leader, will be in charge
of the special program, which
follows:
Violin solo, Miss Elizabeth Nor-
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man.
Talk ( ’ on Thanksgiving, Miss
Lucy Ifemphill.
Things the Girls’ Service Club
ha.ve to be thankful for, Miss
Katherine Weaver.
Duet, Misses Louise Stallworth
and Nell Henslee.
..........Between- 500 and 1,000 lepers
are believed to be at, large in the
United States.
Thirty-six states levy personal
property taxes on autos.