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Ik in's Intuition and Daring Nip
Foxy Venetian Jeweler's Fraud
New York, Dec. 2.—Her wo
man’s instinct and her daring: in
refusing to follow the circuitous
paths by which international dip
lomatists seek to arrive some
where at some time prove Miss
Margaret L. Johnstone, Glen
Ridge, N, J., worthy of a position
of responsibility with any detec*
tive agency in America.
The story begins with Miss
Johnstone ill in Venice in April,
Her nurse, a pretty young Vene
ttan, was so capable, so kindly,
to self-sacrificing that Miss John
stone’s heart was touched.
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from a jeweler in Venice an ex
pensive necklace which she select
ed with great care and considered
particularly well suited to adorn
the nurse’s charms. The jeweler
said he would send it to the
nurse’s home.
Luke Warm Note.
Just before she sailed for Amer
ica Miss Johnstone received a
brief note of thanks. She detect
ed in it a luke-warmness, a lack
of appreciation foreign to the
young woman who had nursed her
back to health. Her woman’s sixth
sense told her all was not as it
should be in certain sections of
Mussolini’s realm.
Reaching America, she wrote
the nurse asking her to describe
the necklace she received. The
nurse’s reply described a necklace
wholly different from the one Miss
Johnstone selected, and evidently
a very cheap bit of jewelry. She
wrote to the jeweler in Venice, but
the answer she received had a
sneer in it, she said, and intimated
an amused desire to know what
she intended to do about it—if
anything.
The customary procedure under
this country’s federal laws would
have been for Miss Johnstone to
write to Secretary of State Hughes
then wait for the unwinding of
many miles of diplomacy’s red
tape.
Writes Mussolini.
Instead she wrote to Mussolini
ADVISES TREASURY
ON THE WAR LOANS
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Floyd G. Blair, New York
lawyer, has been named legal ad
viser to the war loan staff of the
treasury department, in succession
to R. B. Wiggles worth, now on
the staff of the allied reparations
commission.
ARE YOU TERRIBLY
SORRY NOW, GIRLS?
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To show his disapproval of
girls bobbing their hair and nt
tiring themselves in mannish
fashions, Forest Mosier, 20, a
bank employe ip Edinburg, Ind.,
has made himself a “horrible” ex
ample, as he galls it. Mozier let
his hair grow for several months
and then bad it bobbed, afterward
having it shingled. Behold the
result.
and and told him she had heard
he could accomplish the impos
sible, and asked him if he could
compel Italian merchants to be
honest in their dealings with
Americans.
She heard nothing from Musso
lini himself, but recently reeeiv
ed a second letter from the jeweler
who stated he had been informed
she had appealed to his govern
ment, told her what a “tremen*
dously serious" outcome for him
her action might bring, declared
he might even lose his license and
be imprisoned and asked her what
right she had to take such a
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Sends Right Necklace,
Toward the end of the letter
the jeweler said he had sent the
nurse the right necklace and that,
so ,far as he was concerned, the
incident was closed.
Miss Johnstone’s friends told the
story. Miss Johnstone, when ask
ed about it, admitted its truth,
but refused to give the name of
the nurse or the value and descrip
tion of the necklace.
FIRST BASKETBALL
PRACTICE AT HIGH
SCHOOL HELD MONDi
The first basketball practice of
the season took place Monday at
the high school athletic court.
Several of the old men are
back, and many new ones were
in uniform.
The prospects for this year are
unusually bright, and with a lit
tie practice the team will be in
good shape.
The line-up will be announced
soon, along with the schedule.
G. W. GARRICK DIES
IN MERIWETHER COUNTY
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George W. Garrick, 64, died
suddenly at the home in Meri
wether county Monday afternoon
at 5 o’clock. a
Besides his widow, Mrs. Mattie
Williams Garrick, he is survived
by six daughters, Mrs. C. M. Wil
liams and Mrs. T. R. Burdette, of
Thorsby, Ala.; Mrs. E. S. Mc
Gahee, of Haralson; Mrs. O. E.
Wilson, of Thomas, Ala.; Mrs. E.
M. Smith, of Newnan and Miss
Winnie Garrick, of Senoia; one
son, O. H. Garrick,- of Thorsby,
Ala. Mrs. Mary Shaw, of Mon
rose, La., a half sister, also sur
vives.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later, pending arrival
of relatives, by Haisten Bros.
HOUSE AND LOT SOLD -
HERE FOR $9,400
Allen Little sold to the Little
Investment Company Tuesday a
1 house and lot on West Taylor
street, for -$9,400.
T. W. Manley, executor of the
estate of Nancy P. Manley, sold
55 acres of land in Akin district to
A. S. Gossett for $305.
Mis^ Mary Leila Patterson sold
to Mrs. E. T. Patterson a house
and lot on West Taylor street for
$1 and love and affection.
ORDINARY’S COURT
In the ordinary’s court Monday
H. S. Bridges and J. G. Car
michael were granted leave to sell
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W. G. Jackson was appointed
administrator on estate of Mrs.
Myrtice Jackson Cunningham.
John C. Crockett was appointed
guardian of Robert ^nd Gilbert
Cloud.
MESSENGER "BOY” OF 78
STILL HAS THE SWING
Kalamazoo, Dec. 2.—F. N. Diver,
a Western Union messenger "boy”
who is remarkably active for his
78 years, still wields a terrific
punch in his right fist, although he
retired from the ring 60 years ago
He was waiting at a crossing for
a freight train to pass a short
time ago when a husky negro
yanked Diver’s watch from its
chain. Diver landed on the would
be robber's jaw, sending the lat
ter to the sidewalk.
Georgia has 310,732 farms.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
NEW SILO DESIGN
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This combination silo and gran
ary, scientifically ventilated and
containing a motor-driven elevator
that automatically fills it, has beeu
designed by a Bloomington (111.)
man. While the building follows
the design of the ordinary silo. It
Is constructed of concrete staves,
and on two sides of the building the
staves are provided with vent holes
which permit air to circulate
through the stored fodder and pre
vent It from spoiling. Under the
structure Is a passageway large
enough for a horse and wagon or
motor truck. *
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Mrs. Elizabeth Ollefar, for forty
years a resident and reclu se of Irv
Ington, N. J., and eighty-five years
of age, went before the townspeo
ple and the commissioners with
plane for the construction of a
street, the tine of which cute
straight through the 100 acres In
the center of the town which Mrs.
Ollefar owns. It is her intention
to erect within Irvington a model
town as an object lesson to the
town Itself.
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Earl Beauchamp has been elect
ed the Liberal leader in the house
of lords, succeeding Viscount Grey,
who resigned due to ill health.
Lcrd Beauchamp hat held the post
of governor of the colony of New
South Wales, first commissiontr
of works and lord president of the
council.
GRINCESS OF BAVARIA
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New portrait of the beautiful
crown princese of Bavaria, whose
husband, Crown Prince Rupprecht, 1
hat long been planning to make the
amily of Wittelabaeh what the fam
ily of Hohenzollern used to be and
to become the next kaiser. He Is
fifty-five; she, his second wife,
twenty-five. They were married In
1921 and have two children. Be
fore marrlego aha wee Prlnceee An
toinette of Luxemburg and Nassau.
Tuesday, December 2, 1924.
□□□ee Brothers
ANNOUNCE- I
A substantial reduc
tion in the prices
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of their Passenger
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Cars effective
December 1, 1924.
T. J. Bailey, Dealer
114 W. Solomon St., Griffin, Ga.—
Phone 643
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FOR EVERYONE ON YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST—
Gifts Of Furniture
fj- ICSTJ'I A GIFT of furniture is a happy answer to your Christmas
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t i gift suggestions in abundance abound, it will indeed be a ,
\ foigfoaH pleasant task to discover the right gift for each l
name on I
your Christmas list—and to find it at a price that is prob- m
gjC ably less than you expected to pay. You may choose a S3
i graceful chair, useful desk, end table exquisite
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■< lamp—an infinite variety of worth-while gifts, each ap- i'i
propriate and welcome addition home, It will Ct J: 7;
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also shop early, while selections their 1 1
pay you to are at ;
£> best. We will be glad to hold any purchase for delivery
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mb 3-Piece Mahogany Finished Overstuffed Living Room
Suite $125.00
Many other Living Room Suites. . . .$137.50 to $1 198.50 I :
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3-Piece Walnut Bed Room Suite, Vanity Bowfoot Bed \ (o
■ and Bedroom Chest Suite of Drawers............. in Mahogany, Walnut od Dawn $95.00 \m
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-A Dining Room Suite to be Tudor
■‘m, Period, Walnut Finish $147.50 T
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i rors, F.nd Tables, Davenport Tables, Windsor Chairs and r.
Rockers, Spinet Desk, Sewing Cabinets, Tea Carts, Floor, J
.swtsa-isce Table and Bridge Lamps, Cedar Chests, Trunks, Kitchen fi
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