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Tuesday, December 9. 1924. Nation Faced By Shortage Of Timber r - '• *5 • ■: * *■* .. #'4 •••• •:•:• . mm BS ss?: jp®i -.y M m yy >:■?: - ' M * . • V ,:: ; !■■■ n| •w & : : * pH mM' ? * < I iky % ■ M „ M4 ■ 11 . £. ,;\V m K ; ■: >■ 4"' : $ A >. r 4 */ M' ■/ '■A/- , ' / 7 AT.- RELATIVE STANDS OF SAWJIMBELRS BVSWI h **e*r. m H 04Z. * 'luoitiv P ^ V - \B| fOAHO SI ' 1 /J.WIS- •1 m ■.« «oy5s « >«y * wey': gas / lU-'l • \ l*> UTA H a* lmoi OHIO o L_m_ ■ C6 to MO KAN4' • M i 9 ,V ■tcn w_ l ■W , LohLa I n Mgg. i^-r-4 1 r P*»BlW.t<2N V B0fT' 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 scale ______________________ 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- rf ■v L % V A 1 (' ■ ifa y ( A. 4? * \ 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 i . Since 1889 tn V/////////////. 81,000.000. wt/tt/ft, ACRES m rats oa atAxreo rtAMTWa VEAW.V to bate' ACRES 3AOOO 1.448,241 \ ACRES' crease in salaries for these poorly paid employees. 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 : * 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. O 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. *’ : ■ The Pygmy 11 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! <•. III*. Wiaten Ncwspapar Ontaa.) 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 M > * Mi, Si -1 fc ' 1 J-15........ !' «.l_ ...... ......— 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 M ■M i A ■ m V# :vV jj 1® m ■■4.rnme X;. ■' viv ■ ai e <* 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 ----- - — J 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 ■ I COLUMN FOR RENT; Our nice room to couple of men. Mrs. 8. C. Mitchell, 321 South Ninth. ■ — t HOUSE for rent, possession t or before January 1, call *1 or 35. * FOR RENT: Two apartments, up and down stairs; down stai apartment partly furnished, a ■ ■ dress X, care of News A Sim. FOR RENT: Store building, 13* I West Taylor Street. Apply *«• ■ L. C. Manley. ! — CHILDREN’S cocks, Griffin made, 6c pair. Stewart’s, 11* West Broad. FOR SALE—Underwood type writer, practically new. Call 28| ____ 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. ■A :>} 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, Secretary-........ ........ r —....... Funeral Directory l V 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 j 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. Page