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Tuesday, December 9. 1924.
Nation Faced By Shortage Of Timber
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President Coolidge, in g:ving warning of a shortage of timber in the Urfited States, has officially
recognised a situation to which experts have been calling attention for some time, it is pointed out
by official* in Washington. The U. S. cuts nearly as much of its forests in a day as it plants in a
year. * Above is seen a section of land typical of the 81,000,000 acres of idle denuded forest. With
the picture are, two charts explaining the situation graphically.
CONGRESS MAY CHANGE
SALARIES FOR EMPLOYES
OF FEDERAL PRISONS
Washington, Dec. 9.—The de
partment of justice advised Sen
ator Harris Monday that it hoped
to be able to recommend a new
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of .salaries for penitentiary
employees that will be more near
ly in keeping with the duties they
perform and the financial de
mands made upon them in the
matter of legitimate living costs
than has been the case in the
past.
On behalf of the -employees of
the federal prison in Atlanta,
Senator Harris has on several oc
casions urged the department to
make some provision for an in-
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A. beauty and Service
Two important qualities of a real
gift are Beauty and Service
A gift that pleases the eye and at the
same time bespeaks its usefulness will
bring two-fold pleasure to its recipient. t
What could be more useful than an at
tractive Fountain Pen—a Sterling Silver
or a Gold Refilling Lead Pencil ?
A wide range of selections in these fine
values—
Waterman, John Holland, Wahl and
Shaeffer Fountain Pens
Eversharp, Shaeffer, Waterman and
Self-Feed Pencils
i • These are gifts desired by all—both old
and young—men and women—gifts that
bring genuine appreciation—gifts that
one can use three hundred and sixty-five
days in the year.
T. H. WYNNE
!.i JEWELER - OPTICIAN
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pay of workers of
SOLICITOR BOYKIN
TO BE REDUCED
Atlanta, Dec. 9.—Salaries of
practically all employees of the
i office of Solicitor General John A.
Boykin will be cut between 20 to
25 per cent, it was learned Mon
day. The reduction will result
from opposition to the county
commission slate by a special
committee of grand jurymen,
■which has been given veto power
under the ney law.
The eight-hour day has been
temporarily abolished in Germany
and wages are on an hourly basis.
Kiddies’ Evening
Story
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
Elephant’• 40 Banana*
“1 eat them every, flay," said the
Pygmy Elephant. “Yes, every day I
eat forty bana
nas. That Is a
goo for appetite
a little two
and-a-balf - year
old- Pygmy Ele
iO phant to have.
. i Of course you
might not say
I was so very
tiny, but for an
£ elephant I am
\ small.
i “I am thirty
nine inches high
at present and 1
if weigh four hun
dred pounds.
“I grow rather
jmtu i slowly, which Is
Every Day I nice, for then
Eat 40 Bans- creatures difli’t
nas. ii come up to me
each time they see me, saying:
«< Dear me. Pygmy Elephant, how
you've grown. Why, you were a lit
tle thing lost time I saw you. 1
hardly recognized you at first. What
a fine big elephant you’re becom
ing-’ . . ■
they can’t say that to me be
cause I grow so .slowly. When I am
seven or eight years old I am of age
—that is, I am full-grown. By that
time I am about six feet tall.
"I’ve seen children at the zoo and
they've thought they were eating a
greot deal If they ate three bananas.
Even "But two they thought a good deal.
1 eat forty a day. That’s on
appetite worth having. At least It
Is worth It to me, for I get the bana
nas. It would not be worth having
If I didn’t get the bananas.
- I eat apples and oranges and figs
and dates and prunes, too.
"Every day I also drink five cans
of a special kind of condensed
milk.
I don’t do things in any little
Small way* Nothing small about my
power to drink milk.
“I have oatmeal for breakfast
every once iii awhile and I eat rice
padding sometimes..
"So ybu see I’m quite nn enter.
But look at me and see how
BISHOP FAN NOLI
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This is Bishop Fannoll, premier
of Albania and head of the Al
banian Orthodox church.
HOLDS THREE POLITICAL
JOBS AT FORT GAINES;
NOW WANTS TO BE MAYOR
Fort Gaines, Ga., Dec. 9.—J.
L. Hurst, of this city, -who now
holds three political offices, is con
sidering entry into a race for the
fourth. He has just been re
elected justice of peace, is game
warden and oil inspector, and is
said to be thinking of running for
mayor against Judge B. M. Tur
rripeeed, the incumbent, in the
election Wednesday.
SLAYER OF FAMILY
OF FIVE SENTENCED
TO HANG BY JURY
Wheaton, 111., Dec. 9.—John
Kammerer, eccentric recluse, who
murdered a family of five with an
axe and later brutally slashed the
throats of the dead with a safe
ty razor, has been sentenced th
death by hanging.
More than.1,000JWfl.fingar prints
are nqw on file in the Department
of Justice of the United State*.
Thackeray used to lilt his bat
whenever he passed the house in
which he wrote "Vanity Fair. M
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
recently produced one engine an
hour for thirty-one hours.
Drug stores of Budapest do not
sell cigars or maintain soda foun
tains.
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Workers In paper mills of Si
lesia are paid 8 cents an hour.
I look. r
Doesn’t my gray skin look In the
best condition? And my gray ears
He so flat against,jny body, though
they wave n little and flap a little
as I run and play.
“I belong to the Pygmy Elephant
family, and we never grow as the
usual elephants do. I came from
West Africa, in the Congo, but here
I find it very, nice.
"Tfiere is Alice—she is a regular,
usual, full-grown elephnnt. She likes
me. She has taken a fancy to me.
and the big elephants are all nice
with me.
"But Alice would like to pretend
that she was my mamma and that I
was her child.
I will have nose of that. The
one I love best of all Is ray keeper—
better than any of the big elephants,
though I am mannerly and polite to
them, but not exactly affectionate.
"I will follow my keeper any
where. He calls me Tiny. It is his
pet name for roe.
"I ant really a quite unusual ele
phant—African elephants are never
seen so much as the Indian ones,
and then I’m an unusual African
elephant.
"But I cannot talk to you much
more. I cannot tell anything more
about myself.
I really won’t be able to do any
tricks for you or to play and show
you how I do that, nor anything else
just now.
You see, I must begin my dinner.
I have to take a good deal of time
over It.
"Yon can understand that. If you
ate nil I did, all the milk and the
forty bananas I
am sure you
Would find that
your eating took
up quite a little w
time, anyway. *’ :
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Elephant at the looked people 1. J
and put his I' F
trunk in Ids
mouth — not all A
the way, of
coarse, but Just
a little, as a per
son will put a
finger in their
mouth—not for
any reason in
particular.
Then he saw T H • y Thought
the keeper com- Thty Were
1 n g aid be Eating a Great
turned hts back Deal.
upon the people.
Forty bananas a day were more
Important to him than forty vlsi
tors.
Forty visitors came and went
away.
Forty bananas came. or were
brought to Mm, and atayed until be
bad eaten them all.
That was the difference between
bananas and vtsltore—er at least It
was one of Ihe differences!
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NEGRO IS ARRESTED
HERE FOR STEALING
BALE OF COTTON
Monroe Crawley, negro, was
arrested late yesterday afternoon
by Policeman Oscar Simonton on
a charge of stealing a bale of
cotton from Gossett’s gin on
North Fifth street.
Crawley is said to have weigh
ed the cotton at Ogletree’s ware
house on East Solomon street and
sold it to J. *E. Drewry.
Police believe others were im
plicated with him in the theft,
but no other arrests have been
made. ■*
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
Rival Floor Leaders Say Howdy
Between Sessions- of ^Congress
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Representative Finis J Garrett ot Tennessee, left, Democratic
floor leader of the House, and Representative Nicholas Longwortli
of Ohio, Republican floor leader, snapped exchanging greetings be
tween sessions
GOLF §TAR
LOSES TO CUPID
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Alexa Stirling, ■ Atlanta, . Ga.,
three times national women’s golf
champion, is betrothed to Dr. Wil
bert C. Fraser of Canada, accord
ing to reports from New York
where she is connected with a
'v>nd firm.
A German firm has introduced a
cheap automobile in Spain to com
pete with those from this country.
Shoes with detachable soles and
heels are on the market.
It would require fourteen days
to travel a mile at snail’s pace.
There are 11,000 chambers and
apartments in the Vatican.
PUBLIC SALE
GEORGIA—Spalding county.
The undersigned, the City Na
tional Bank of Griffin, will sell at
public sale to the highest bidder
for cash at the court house door
in Griffin, Spalding county, Geor
gia, between the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in Jan
uary, 1925, all of the following de
scribed property, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land
situate, lying and being in the
county of Spalding and state of
Georgia, containing fifty (50)
arces, more or less, and being the
east half of the west half of land
lot No. 74 in the third district
of Spalding county, Georgia,
bounded as follows: On the north
by the original land lot line of
ga jd i ot; 0 n the east by lands of
Q. W. Maddox; on the south by the
^original land lot line of said lot;
and on the west by lands of Mrs.
Taylor, being a strip of land run
ning north and south across said
lot of land.
This land will be sold under a
power of sale contained in a deed
made by Leon T. Maddox to the
Mortgage Security Company, dat
ed December 1st, 1916, and re
corded in the clerk’s office of
Spalding county, Georgia, on De
cember 28th, 1916, in Deed Book
32, pages 495, 496 and 497. Said
deed was given by the said Leon
T. Maddox to secure a certain
promissory note for the principal
sum of 1800.00, due on the first
day of December, 1921, with inter-
PROCESS.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
STATE OF GEORGIA, /
Spalding County.
Ale* R. Murray vs. Jessie Con
nor Murray, libel for divorce.
Tile defendant, Jessie Connor
Muitay is hereby required, per
sonally, or by attorney, to be
and appear at the *next superior
court, to be holden in and for
said county on the second Mon
day in January, 1925, next, then
and there to answer the plaintiff’s
complaint, as in fault thereof the
court will proceed as to justice
shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable Wm. E.
H. Searcy, Jr., judge of the said
court, this 6th day of November,
1924.
F. P. LINDSEY, Clerk.
Jesse O. Futral, Plffs. Atty.
Railroad Schedule
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrival and Dyaartore of Pauwa
gar Trains At Griffin, Ga.
The schedules arc published a*
information and arc not guar
anteed:
North South
2:29 pm Atlanta-Sav’h 11:06 pm
4:30 am Atlanta-Sav’n 9:04 am
6:49 am Chgo-Cin-v'ax 10:27 pm
7:17 am Chgo-St. L,-J»x 7:67 ptp
8.67 am Atlanta-Ma*on 5:24 pm
12:2Rpm Atlanta-Macon 2:17 pm
6: 30 pm Atlanta-AJb’ny 12:38 am
6:20 am Chicago-Jax 8:60 pm
Chattanooga Division
From For
2:30 pm Chattanooga 8:46 am
8:16 Cedartoown 6:26 pir
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Atlanta Points-^
6:63 pm East—West 10:02^m
10:02 am CI-bua-Ft. V’y 6:63 pm
WANT AD —* S
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FOR RENT; Our nice
room to couple of men. Mrs. 8.
C. Mitchell, 321 South Ninth. ■
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HOUSE for rent, possession t
or before January 1, call *1 or
35.
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FOR RENT: Two apartments,
up and down stairs; down stai
apartment partly furnished, a
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FOR RENT: Store building, 13* I
West Taylor Street. Apply *«• ■
L. C. Manley. !
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CHILDREN’S cocks, Griffin
made, 6c pair. Stewart’s, 11*
West Broad.
FOR SALE—Underwood type
writer, practically new. Call 28|
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FOR SALE: Speckled pointer.
SJife , Griffin i Mercantile
FOR SALE—House and lot lo
cated on 305 North Twelfth street.
See J. P. Burton at Spalding Knit
ting Mills. —
LOST: Fur neckpiece made of
two sables. Return to ft. B*
Brown. Reward.
U, S. ARMY blankets, new,
Stewart’s. 118 West Broad.
WANTED: Clean cotton cloths
or rags. Must be clean and
clear of buttons. Traer-Johnsoffi
Co.
STENOGRAPHER and typist:
I have one of fine charact^ and
proficiency, who desires a place.
Phone W. E. H. Searcy, Sr., N®.
21 .
WANTED: Cow peas, O-fcoo-ta*
and Laredo Beans. H. V. K*l
Company.
WANTED: To drive car to Mb
ami or other points in Florida,
Address Otis Carden, Route C,
Griffin, Ga.—
Money saved by baying Arrow
Semi-Soft collars, 5 for $1.08. ■
SIBLEY CLOTHING CO. ■;
Attention Old Santa: Guinea
pigs for sale. Pbene 408, Mrs. S.
Bartles. *
LANGFORD TAXI SBRVICB-'
day and night. Phone 849.
BOYS’ Pants, never wear ou$
Worth $2.50, at $1.49. Stewart'!*
118 West Broad.
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LODGE DIRECTORY )
WARREN LODGE
No. 20, I. O. O. F., meets every
Monday night at 7:30 .at WarrsB
Lodge invited. Hall. Visiting R. A. brothers Peel, Secre- ooe
■iially T. Atfiinson. N. G.
tary; W.
MERIDIAN SUN LODGE
No. 26, F. A A, M. Regular meet
ing Tuesday, December 16, 7 p."h».
Election of officers. C. H. Scqka,
W. M.; Bill Wells, Secretary.
est from date at the rate of 7
per cent per annum. Said deed,
together with said note, was after
wards, to-wit: On December 26th,
1916, transferred by the Mortgage
Security Company to Alfred Tag
gard, said transfer being record
ed In the clerk’s office in deed
book 32, page 497. And there
after, to-wit: On the first day
of December, 1921, the maturity of
said note was extended until the
first day of December, 1926, with
the express provision that time
was the essence of the contract
and that a failure, to pay the In
terest installments of $66.00 due
on the first day of November,
1924, and yearly thereafter, would,
at the option of the holder, make
£he entire principal and interest
due and collectible. Thereafter,
to-wit: On the 12th day of Jan
uary, 1924, the said Alfred Tag
gard regularly transferred and
assigned said deed and note to
the City National Bank of Grif
fin with all of his right, title and
interest under said deed, Said
transfer being recorded in Book
44* page 264 of the records of
Spalding county, Georgia.
And where**,, the said Lean T.
Maddox has defaulted in the pay
ment of the interest installment
•due November 1st, 1924, amount
ing to $66.00, the City National
Bank of Griffin has elected to de
clare the entire principal and in
terest due and collectible, and will
proceed to sell the said property
under the power of sale contain
ed in said original deed, as the
property of Leon T. Maddox, to
satisfy the amount due on said
note together with interest and
other legal charges thereon. _
This 2nd day of December, 1924.
CITY NATIONAL BANK OF
Griffin, Cleveland A Good
rich, Attorneys.
. w. o. w.
Meets every Thursday, needs 7:80 p. ■
Sovereigns, You your will camp find you
presence. Slaton-Powell your Clash
all times at
ing Co. Visiting sovereigns wel
come. Come. L. J. Sauley, CL
C. C. Stanley, C'erk.
BEN BARROW LODGE v.
No. 587, F. * A. M. Regular
meetings first and third Thursday
nights in each month. Visiting
brothers invited. L. B. Guest, W.
M.: Clifford Grubbs, Secretary.
PYTHAGORAS CHAPTER
No. 10, R. A. M. Regular Thursdays, meet
ing second and fourth
7:30 p. m. Visitors welcome. Wm,
T. Atkinson, H. P.; Bill Wells,
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Funeral Directory l
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E. D. FLETCHER
Funeral Director and 4
, Embalmer 4
with
Griffin Mercantile Co.
Office Phone 474 Phone
HAISTEN BROS.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND EXtfiALMERS
Griffin and Sends, Ga.
Offlse Phone 676. Bca, Phone <8
Frank S. Pittman !
Modern Funeral Hoillft.
Office 112 Phone W. 822 Taylor Res. Faone St 688
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STATE AND COUNTY.
TAXES ARB DO*
Books close December 20.
tereat and cost charged after
camber 20.
T. R. NUTT, Ye* Collect**,
TRY NEWS WANT ABE.
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