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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. . .. , / 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 WHO’S YOUR BANKER? EVERY MAN, NO* MATTER WHAT HIS INCOME IS, SHOULD HAVE ONE. Our Institution is fitted by Experience and Modern Equipment to handle YOUR Bank ing Business Satisfactorily. Savings department where you can accumu late money for future use. Safety deposit boxes for guarding your valuables. MERCHANTS & PLANTERS BANK “THE BANK WHERE YOU FEEL AT HOME’ ANNOUNCING F. S. PITTMAN AND / TH0S. J. DENHAM Office, 112 W. Taylor St. Ml DISTRICT MANAGERS OF THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK \ 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 v r ■ 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- S. G. BAILEY 114 E. Solomon St. Real Estate and Insurance Get in touch with me for C1TY-ANDFARM PROPERTIES S.. G. BAILEY Real Estate & Insurance Phones: Office 2 Res. 1 — St. Jacobs Oil stops any pain, so when your back is sore and lame, or lumbago, sciatica or rheu matism has you stiffened up, don’t suffer! Get a small trial bottle of old, honest St. Jacobs Oil at any drug store, pour a little in your hand, and rub it right on your aching back; and by the time you count 50 the soreness and lameness is gone. Don’t stay crippled! This sooth ing, penetrating oil needs to be used only once. It takes the pain right out ancr ends the mis ery. It is magical, yet abso lutely harmless, and doesn't burn the skin. Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica, headache or rheumatism so promptly. It never disap points! 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. . ... . *7* r' v ' r § Only i H STUDEBAKER :j . offers this new-type car ■ f r t « ■ THE NEW STUDEB AKER SPECIAL SIX ©UPLEX-PHAETON, $1495 STANDARD 113-irt. tv. a SOH.P. SIX T HE that new combines Studebaker the protection Duplex of is the a closed only car car __ 5-Pm*. 3-Put. 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