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Thursday, December 11, 1924.
CHRISTMAS IE
FOR SHY SIDE
Has Been Annual Event in
Community for the Past
Thirty Years.
Sunny Side, Dec. 11.—In obser
vance with the custom of 30 years
continuance, the annual Christmas
tree will be held at Sunny Side
on Wednesday evening, December
24, the success of which every
body is invited to contribute to.
There will be a brief musical pro
and . several ,
gram appropriate '
recitations. . .. ,
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The Rev. J. H. Powell,/ of Mil
ner, filled - his regular ipoint
ment at Tirzah Baptist church
last Sunday. }
The numerous Sunny / Side
friends of B. M. Ruff, son |>f Mrs.
Nora P. Ruff, bT'this :e, will
regret to lesfrn that he is se
riously ill at/a hospital in Cincin
nati, OJxku
The condition of Mrs. W. A.
White, who has been quite ill for
several days, is much improved
and it is hoped that she will soon
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DISTRICT MANAGERS OF THE
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF NEW YORK
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Assets $705,000,000
R. F. Shedden, Manager
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Building November Permits Show in South Slight For Loss For ]
First Time in Several Months
Atlanta, Dec.
November building permits in six
teen southern states failed to hold
the gains shown by the previous
month, and for the first time in
several months showed an actual
loss over the corresponding month
of 1923, according to figures com
piled by the survey department of
G. L. Miller & Co., southern real
estate mortgage bond house, of
this city.
The loss, however, was very
slight, ,, ... amounting ,» only , to 2 per
cent, \ which ... could ,, , be , absorbed , ... by
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the is shown la- dle single city
of Nas te7"”which had nearly
three millions in November of last
be in the enjoyment of her usual
health.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Darsey
are receiving congratulations over
the arrival of a baby boy into
their househoud.
T. G. Barfield spent Tuesday
in Atlanta.
J. T. Mitchell and P. J. Mitch
ell served on the city court jury
in Griffin several days this
year.
Totals reported from 105 cities
amounted to $38,776,723, which
was fifteen millions less than Oc
tober. The previous month was
an unusual month for the late
fall.
Several office buildings, schools,
churches and other public build
ings of considerable valuation were
reported for the month.
Birmingham Leads.
Birmingham, which led the
cities of the farther south during
November, had the medical arts
building being erected by the
Fourth Building corporation, whose
ultimate cost will be a million
dollars.
Another medical arts building,
at San Antonio, took out a permit
for $705,000. The State Bank
building, an eight-story structure
costing $340,000, was begun in
Corsicana, Texas. A bank building
in Rock Mill, S. C., totalled $150,
000 .
Churches and Schools.
Among important church and
school permits were those for
the First Methodist church of St.
Petersburg, Fla., $325,000; the
Central Christian church of Waco,
Texas. $126,000; St. Paul’s Evan
gelical church of Wheeling, $77,
000; a Christian church at Kansas
City, $120,000; a Y. W. C. A.
building at Asheville, N. C., $60,
000; the Sacred Heart academy,
Louisville, $225,000; a school at
Cumberland, Md., $125,000; the St.
Augustine, Fla., high school, $80,
000. Atlanta had a $600,000 apart
ment; Savannah reported the Cen
tral of Georgia workshops, $400,-:
000; and Charlotte began the erec
tion of three municipal buildings
at a total cost of $528,000.
Principal Cities.
Principal cities for the month,
and their totals, follows: Balti
more, $3,878,640; Washington, $3,-
833,421; St. Louis, $2,682,910;
Birmingham, $1,933,498; Miami,
$1,595,660; Memphis, $1,396,980;
Atlanta, $1,343,692; Kansas City,
$1,321,475; San Antonio, $1,305,-
685; Houston, $1,195,300; Louis-
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
DREWRY TO GIVE
Athens, Dec. 11.—John E.
Drewry, adjunct professor of
journalism and director of pub
licity in the Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism of the Uni
versity of Georgia, will be one of
the principal speakers at the an
nual convention of the American
Association of Journalism Teach
ers which meets in Chicago at
the LaSalle Hotel December 29,
30 and 31.
Mr. Drewry will speak on Mon
day, the first day of the conven
tion, and the subject which he
will discuss as announced on the
program of the convention, is
U Teaching Something About Mag
azines and Magazine Writing.”
Authority.
The Georgia professor, as au
thor of a new book on journalism,
Some Magazines and Magazine
Makers,” is regarded as an au
thority on the subject of maga
zines, and his address will outline
the most effective methods of
teaching something about maga
zines and magazine writers to
university and college students
taking courses in journalism.
Mr. Drewery’s book about mag
azines appeared in October, and
as the only book dealing with the
subject, has been widely endorsed
by journalists and magazine edi
tors.
Mr. Drewry is a former Grif
finite, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Judson E. Drewry, of West Col
lege street.
ville, $1,177,180; St. Petersburg,
$1,058,200; Dallas, $1,047,468;
Richmond, $971,469; Charlotte,
$888,413; New Orleans, $654,075;
West Palm Beach, $564,055; Sa
vannah, $557,500; Miami Beach,
$477,500; Tampa, $460,836; Ft.
Worth, $450,417; Tulsa, $440,330,
and Knoxville, $409,314.
TRIAL FOR LIFE
FOB FIFTH TIE
Columbus, Dec. 11.—For the
fifth time L. C. Hammond today
faced trial for his life on a
charge of slaying his wife.
He is charged with having
killed her in 1921 as she lay
asleep in her bed.
Hammond claims that she ac
cidentally shot herself while ex
amining a pistol.
Record of Trials.
At his first trial the jury failed
to agree and a mistrial was en
tered. ,
The second time he was sen
tenced to life imprisonment in the
Georgia penitentiary but the pre
siding judge granted a new trial.
The third resulted in a mistrial
and the last time he was again
sentenced to life imprisonment.
He appealed to the supreme
and remanded the case for a fifth
trial. 3
He is being held in the Musco
gee county jail here.
BOY INJURED BY FALLING
ON BOTTLE IS IMPROVING
Fry Porter, wha wa3 painfully
injured several days ago when he
fell on a glass bottle, is report
ed as being much better.
The lad lives with his grand
mother on Fifteenth street.
While playing the other day he
placed the bottle in his cap and
stumbled and fell, being cut
several places about the head.
TINNER INJURED.
C. A. McDonald, a well
tinner, was painfully injured
yesterday when he fell on
head while ascending the attic
the'qity hall to repair the
j He was able to be up today.
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