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TEXTILE MILL
FILES PETITION
FOR A CHARIER
Griffin’s Latest Industry to Be
Incorporated With Capital
of $500,000.
Petition for charter for the
Highland Mills, Griffin’s latest
textile industry, was filed today
in the office of the clerk of su
perior court.
The petitioners are James M.
Brawner, Mrs. James M. Braw
ner, W. F. Ingram, Mrs. W. F.
Ingram, Charles H. Murray and
Mrs. Charles H. Murray, all res
■ idents of Spalding county.
Capita] Stock $500,000.
The capital stock of the new
company will be $500,000, with
.the privilege of increasing to $1,-
500,000 by a majority vote of the
stockholders.
Incorporation for a period of
20 years was asked, with the priv
ilege of renewal at the end of
that time.
Principal Office Here.
The principal office will be in
Griffin, but right is asked to
establish branch offices within
the state or elsewhere.
The business to be carried on
by the corporation is to manufac
ture, spin, weave, bleach, dye
and finish cotton and cotton
goods, to buy and sell cotton and
cotton goods, and to own and
operate a cotton mill for . the
manufacture and sale of all
manner of cotton products.
The new mill will be located
opposite the Central of Georgia
railroad about two and a half
miles north of Griffin. Plans are
fast being perfected for the work
of construction.
HI STUDENTS 10
The students of the Griffin high
school will put on a stunt night
and carnival at the high school
building Friday night at 7:30
o’clock for the benefit of the An
nual.
The students have been practic
ing all week for the show, which
will be given in the auditorium.
Hitherto unearthed talent in the
various classes will come to light
4n attractive skits.
Girls’ Chorus.
The girls’ chorus will be a
feature of the entertainment.
Four young ladies will represent
the seasons, Miss Katherine Rog
ers appearing as Summer, Miss
Mary Alice Beck as Winter, Miss
Ethlyn Ison as Autumn, and Miss
Emily Hallyburton as Spring.
The Junior Harmony Four,
composed of Frank Jones, Sam
Lumpkin, John Newton Gammon
and Chester Huckaby, will give
a number of selections. “ ~
Argentine Tango.
Miss Sara Randall and Marcus
Carson, Jr., will dance the Ar
gentine tango.
Each class will give a stunt,
the senior stunt being a one act
play.
Many Booths.
The carnival in the gymna
sium will follow the stunts. A
large number of booths will con
tain freaks and other things for
the amusement of the patrons.
Each carnival giyen by the
. school students has been a
cess and from all reports this
is no exception.
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ANTI-GAMBLING LAW
VOIDED IN
Lansing, Dec. II.—The
gan anti-gambling law enacted
the last legislature, was
be unconstitutional by the
supreme court yesterday.
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RADIO STATION TO
LEAVE PRISON SOON
Jefferson City, Mo., Dec.
11.—The “king of the ivo
ries,” who won acclaim for
his exceptional piano play
ing via radio while serving
a term here in the Missouri
state penitentiary here, is to
,be released January 16.
He is Harry M. Snodgrass,
serving three years for rob
bery at St. Louis, who has
appeared as the star per
former on the Monday night
programs from WOS, the
state marketing bureau sta
tion.
Snodgrass recently won the
title of ‘‘the most popular ra
dio entertainer” in the nation
wide contest.
Snodgrass ha s received
many offers of employment
on vadueville circuits.
TOLD
Prof. M. L. Duggan and^ assis
tants, Who are making a survey
of the Griffin school system and
members of the high basketball
team were guests of the Griffin
Rotary club at its weekly lunch
eon today,
Free Clinics.
Prof. ^Duggan urged that free
clinics should be given in the
schools and that a physical di
rector of education should be em
ployed.
Miss Lafle, who is assisting in
the physical examination in con
nection with the school survey,
urged that a county health of
ficer (
and school nurse be employ
ed in the schools.
Many Physically Unfit.
Dr; Worth Gable, who is con
ducting the physical examination,
stated that out of a class of 94
in the fifth grade of the Sam
Bailey school, 74 pupils were
found physically unfit for the
work they are doing.
Prof. Duggan stated that many
Important recommendations would
be made when the school sur
vey is completed. He said he was
pleased with the co-operation giv
en here.
President Hammond told the
basketball team that the Rotary
Club was backing them and hop
ed to see them have a winning
team this year.
WEALTHY DISTILLER
ACQUITTED OF MURDER
St. Louis, Dec. 11.—Lem Mot
low, wealthy Tennessee distiller,
on trial for the slaying of Clar
ence T. Pullis, Pullman conductor,
following an altercation with Ed
Wallis, negro porter, was found
not guilty last night.
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French Girls Compete For Mates
At Yearly Marriage Fair in Village
Paris, Dec. 11.—The romantic
possibilities even of Paris have
been eclipsed this last week by
the marriage fair at Arlon, a lit
tle town on the Belgian border.
Once a year for this glorious
week young men and maidens
swarm in from miles around, and
are allowed, nay encouraged, to
put aside all natural or acquired
shyness and angle boldly fo£
sweethearts.
All Given Chance.
Girls—pretty, beautiful, plain
and ugly—are given a chance to
hook a husband.
Young men are invited to
choose from the assortment of
lassies whose mere presence in
Arlon is a promise they are will
ing.
The municipal councillors make
a pretense of keeping an eye on
GRIFFIN, GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER II. 1924.
Likes U. S. Hubby So Can't
“Reside” In Paris, Court Rules
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Mrs. Jules S. Bache.
New York,»Dec. 11.—Mrs. Jules
S. Bache, whose husband is se
nior member of the banking and
brokerage firm of J. S. Bache &
Co., Broadway, has been assessed
approximately $26,000 by Collec
tor of the Port Philip E. Elting
for failure to declare as dutiable
clothing and jewelry valued at
$18,000 when she arrived Novem
ber 15 on the French liner Paris.
Neglect to pay the assessment
will result in confiscation of the
property. This is the second de
ciskm made by customs
against Mrs. Bache who has
maintained a residence .in Paris
since 1900, living there 11 months
of the year.
In both cases the wife of the
broker cited her foreign residence
as proof of her right, under the
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INTERNAL FRENCH LOAN
IS OVERSUBSCRIBED.
Paris, Dec. 11.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Finance Minister
Clementel announced today that
France’s internal loan of 4,000,
000,000 . francs had been largely
oversubscribed.
JUDGESHIP TENDERED
TO BLACKSHEAR MAN.
.-Atlanta, Dec. 11.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—S. Foster Mem
ory, of Blackshear, Ga., was to
day tendered the appointment by
Governor Walker of the judgship
of the Waycross circuit superior
court, to succeed the late Judge
Summerall. The place was de
clined yesterday by Solicitor Gen-
the candidates for wedlock, but
the couples who find each other
congenial find no difficulty in
slipping out through the romantic
glades by the riverside.
Age-Old Custom.
The marriage fair has been a
custom in Arlon from the begin
gitig of recorded time, but the
number of engagements announc
ed last week is said to have set
a record.
Strangers.
Some of the young people who
meet at the fair already know
each other slightly.
But most of them are strangers
to each other and love at first
sight is given an unequaled op
portunity to show what it can
do.
Under the influence of jazz and
generous potations of the f
wino of the country it does
CITY POLICE NAB
1,317 LAST PERSONS 12
MONTHS
Plain Drunks Led List With
Total of 337—-94 Arrested
for Speeding.
The police report for the fiscal
year ending December 8, as com
piled by Police Chief L. L. Stan
ley, shows a total of 1,317 ar
rests made during the 12 months
by city officers.
The department turned into the
city treasury $7,925.90 during the
year.
Drunks Head List.
Cases against persons accused
of plain drunkenness led the list
with a total of 337.
Cases' were made against 39
persons for driving automobiles
while drunk.
Speeding.
Cases were made against 94
persons for speeding in the
tariff laws, to bring personal be
longings into the country duty
free.
The United. States court of
customs appeals, to which Mrs.
Bache took her case in 1911 af
ter she had been assessed several
thousand dollars by Collector of
Port Loeb, ruled that a wife,
a admittedly in amicable relations
with her husband, cannot acquire
a residence in Europe when the
husband, as the head of the fam
ily, has ^elected to establish the
family residence in the United
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Mr. Elting, after making it
clear that Mrs. Bache had made
no attempt to conceal the cloth
ing and jewelry, seized on the
French liner’s pier, announced his
findings were based on the court’s
ruling.
oral Spence, of Waycress. Tele
phone communications with Mem
ory quote him as saying to the
Savannah Press that he was in
clined to decline.
MEXICAN PRESIDENT
ANXIOUS ABOUT GOMPERS.
Mexico City, Dec. 11.—(By
Associated Press.) —
Gompors is standing up
than expected, ■ said a
sent in the early morning
from the special train on
Samuel Gompers, head of
American Federation of Labor,
traveling from this city. It
sent to President Calles, who
ing the night insisted upon
. ceiving reports of Mr.
co nditio n . —..... —
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
GETS EGYPT’S PROTEST.
Rome, Dec. 11.—(By the Asso
dated Press.) Waylaying Al
franco Mello Franco, president of
the council of the League of Na
tions, at the door of his hotel
here today, Egyptian Senator
Fanous succeeded in handing him
a new protest against British ac
tion in Egypt, and a fresh de
mand for intervention by the
league.
BRITISH DEBT
STATEMENT ACCEPTED.
Washington, Dec. 11.—(By the
Associated Press.)—The /treasury
has accepted the statement of
Winston Churchill, chancellor of
the British exchequer, yesterday
of allied debts “as obvious
logical,” and has no intention
making any further
This official expression was
today after a conference
Secretary Mellon, Under
2,209 STILLS ARE
DESTROYED IN STATE
BY PROHI AGENTS
Atlanta, Dec. 11—Prohibi
tion enforcement reports Cor
the fiscal year ending June
30, 1924, show 2,209 stills de
stroyed in this state, against
2,796 the year before.
Last year this state headed
the record of the nation.
Beer destroyed this year
amounted to 1,79 4,139 gal
lons.
Total value of property ap
praised and destroyed was
$437,650.40 for this state.
The number of automobiles
seized was 170.
Director Dlsmuke says the
record is a splendid one for
Georgia, compared with other
states.
The department in this
state had five less men this
year than last.
and 31 cases were made for reck
less driving.
There were 520 miscellaneous
cases.
State warrants were served by
j:ity officers on 296 persons.
T 110,000 MARK
Griffin has received 9,020 bales
of cotton this season as compar
ed with 5,565 bales yast year,
and Spalding county has ginned
9,078 bales of cotton prior to
December 1, as compared with 4,-
445 bales ginned on. .the '•orres
ponding date last year.
According to the official cot
ton report as furnished by J.
Ellis Maynard, statistician for the
government, Griffm received 292
bales the week ended Thursday,
December 11, as compared with
172 bales for the corresponding
week last year.
The shipments were 224 bales,
against 311 bales.
The stock on hand in the differ
ent warehouses was 5,342 bales,
against 2,563 bales.
Price quotations December 11
one year ago Were 34.25 for
spots and December 11 this year
22.25.
ATLANTA SCHOOL BOYS
TO WAGE WAR AGAINST
A WET CHRISTMAS
Atlanta, Dec. 11.—A 11 a n t a
school boys have declared war
on a wet Christmas.
These scholars form a battery
of vigilants to see to it that
those who plan a gay holiday pe
riod do not mix it with drinks.
These youthful vigilants will
Radio-Equipped Automobile Gives N
Serenade on Streets of Griffin
Attaching a radio set to his
automobile, J. M. Barringer went
serenading last night, making a
circuit in the business districts
and residential sections of the
city.
Concerts in' several northern
and western states were plainly
heard by pedestrians and persons
L WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia: Fair tonight and
Friday, slightly warmer in the
northwest and somewhat cooler
in the south portion tonight'; frost
to the coast. Warmer Friday.
Temperature for 24 hours end
ing at noon Thursday:
Mtximum 63
Minimum 32
Mean ... 47
tary Winston and Assistant Sec
retary Wadsworth at the treas
ury.
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School Boy Dies at Home of
Parer'jj Here Thurs
day Morning.
One of the saddest deaths in
Griffin in some time was that of
Walter Wayne Byrd, which oc
curred at 2:20 o’clock this morning
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Byrd, 117 East
College street.
He died from blood poisoning as
the result of a boil on his right
leg, being a similar case to that
of Calvin Coolidge, young son of
President Coolidge, who died last
July in Washington.
Brave Fight.
He was 14 years old and a
bright, manly boy, who made a
brave fight.
He went home sick last Satur
day, quitting his work at the Ala
mo theatre. His condition was at
first not regarded as serious.
Brief funeral services will be
held at the family residence to
morrow morning at 8 o’clock, con
ducted by the Rev. John F. Yar
brough and the Rev. Leon M.
Latimer.
Calssanates to Attend Funeral.
School children of the " Seventh
grade of the Sam Bailey school,
classmates of the dead boy, and
the Boy Scouts, of which he Was
a member, will attend the funeral.
The body will be taken to
Logansvilie for interment, accom
panied by the parents, classmates, -
Boy Scout* and friends. Burial
will be in the family plot in the
cemetery there.
ATLANTA LOSES TANLAC
Atlanta, Dec. 11.—Offices of the
Tanlac Company (International
Proprietaries, Inc.), which have
been located in Atlanta since or
ganization of the concern, are to
be moved to Dayton, O., according
to information here yesterday aft
ernoon. The company, at least
the controlling stock, was recently
sold by S, A. Lynch to New York
interests.
Market Reports
(Over Pursley, Slaton & Co.’«
Private Wire.)
New Orleans Cotton
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iOpenjlligblLow ICi’sejClos e
Jan. 23.13 23.18 22.95 23.12 23.08
Mch. 23.17 23.22 22.97 23.16 23.12
May' 23.40 23.48 23.22 23.43 23.37
July 23.50 23.56 23.29 23.56123.42
Dec. 23.17 23.23 23.06 23.23123.15
New York Cotton
I Open High! Low Id’ae Close
Jan. 22.83 22.90 22.66 22.85 22.81
Mch. 23.25 23.28 23.05 23.23 23.20
May 23.60 23.68 23.41 23.60 23.55
Dec. 22.75122.80 22.60 22.76 22.72
Griffin Spot Cotton
Good Middling 22.75
Strict Middling 22.50
Middling 22.25
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FRIDAY
Friday will be visitors’ day for
three of the Griffin schools, Sam
Bailey, Fourth Ward and the
North Side school, according to
Supt. Lester. The date for visi
tors day at the other schools of
the city will be announced later.
No special program will be giv
en, the children reciting their reg
ular lessons.
Parents, and the public in gen
eral are urged to visit the schools
in order to get a better under
standing of the work being done
in the different grades.
SEEK 10 ENJOIN
Atlanta, Dec. 11.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—With a view to
testing Georgia laws regulating
future delivery transactions in
cotton and other commodities, as
well as stocks, bonds and other
securities, a suit was today filed
in federal court here by Fenner
and Beane, brokers, with head
quarters at New York and New
Orleans, seeking to enjoin Solici
tor General Boykin, of the Ful
ton superior court, from further
prosecution of the firm for alleg
ed violation of the state statute.
not have the power to rarest any
one they find defying Mr. Vol
stead, but they have been in
structed to report violation of
prohibition to the proper author
ities, who, in turn, plan to take
action against offenders.
in their homes as the music-mak
ing automobile passed by.
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' Best Program From Detroit.
Stations picked up included
WBZ in Boston, WOC in Daven
port, WWJ in Detroit and KDKA
in Pittsburg. The best program
was in Detroit, it is stated, and
it was plainly heard here.
Mr. Barringer represents the
J. E. Varner Electric Company,
and the radio set was used with
such success was the Radiola
per Heterodyne, sold by
company.
Many Fans Here.
Mr. Barringer reports
Griffin people are becoming
thusiastic radio fans. He
sold 20 machines in the
week and has orders for
more sets.
He states that he will give
exhibitions each week of the
dio attached to his automobile.
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