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A large audience la expected at
the city-county community meet
■' fng of the Griffin Chamber of
Commerce at Brooks tonight at
7 o’clock. Many persons in Fay
ette county have arranged to be
The Griffin delegation will be
headed the by Rev. John F. Yar
brough, chairman of the rural
relations committee of the local
Chamber. He urges Griffinites to
assemble at trade headquarters
in time to make the trip.
Good Program.
A splendid program has been
I, including several ad
awl musical numbers, in
to moving pictures of an
educational nature.
First Outside County.
The local chamber has held
community meetings in most of
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the districts of Spalding county
and the meeting at Brooks tonight
is the first time time that outside
territory has been invaded.
The people of Brooks were an
xious for one of the meetings aj|d
in compliance ’ with various re
quests the chairman of the 1 rural
relations committee decided to go
The meeting was arranged for
last Monday night, but was post
poned on account of a rainstorm.
J, L. BOYD ARRESTED
BY MISTAKE HERE
f* SATURDAY NIGHT
J. L. fiuid, o i tills city, wko was
arrested at Rogers' Store Sat
urday night by county officers on
A charge of cheating and swind
ling the Fourth National Bank, of
Macon, was carried to Macon,
where he was identified by ffank
officials, all of whom said he was
the Wrong man, and stated that J.
B. Boyd, Jr., was the man they
wanted, and released Mr. Boyd
and seat him back to Griffin,
»• Boyd is well known in
X Griffin and his friends will be
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and small children. A complete stock in
the new popular colors.
Comfoyt. Beauty and Rest to be found
in these Bedroom and Bath Slippers.
Feet Tired?
Authorities agree that the feet must be
relaxed if the balance of the body is to
become refreshed.
STR1CKLAND-CROUCH CO.
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Pedals Gloom
On His Bicycle
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Chesser Lortie, above, of
Brooklyn, is a prophet —-with
many documents to show that Re
is.
For the future lip prophesies
The worst war in history with
in four years.
Rising of Moslem hordes to"de
mand independent will start it.
Conflict will involve the Unit
ed States dually. _
Mexico * and South American
^S „ tric * wiH be Uncle Sam’a
foes.
glad to hear that his arrest was
a case, of mistaken identity.
The Chinese honor their guests
by placing before them the oldest
eggs obtainable, which are con
sidered their greatest delicacy.
The opium poppy first became
known' among the Greeks and Ro
mans.
Snow storms in Greenland last
as long as three weeks.
r r est Griffin r^».
MISS ESTHER HAMEUC
Correspondent
t The Parent-Teacher Association
of the Rushton school met Friday.
The physical welfare of the child
was discussed. This will be the
topic for next meeting also and
all mothers are urged to be pres
ent.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Watson,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Payne and
children motored to Hollonvilie
Sunday.
We are glad to report that the
infant of Mr, and Mrs. B. T. «La
prade, of Sixteenth street, la Im
proving,
Mrs. H. S. Gatlin had as her
guest Sunday her brother, J. W
Jones, and his two sons.
T. L. Jones and Murray Jones'
spent the week-end witk their
sister and aunt, Mrs. H. S. Gatlin.
Mrs. J. W. Rice spent Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Artie Waller,
who continues ill at her home.
The many friends of Willie B.
Gatlin will be sorry to hear that
he has been quite ill at his home.
The Rushton School News.
We are all busy getting ready'
for Christmas. We have all of
our rooms decorated and have
learned many new Christmas
songs. \Ve like for our mothers
to come to the Parent-Teacher
Association because they can see
our rooms and some of the work
we are doing. We are always
glad to have them visit us and
hear our lessons.
There are three on the honor
roll In the fifth grade for last
Week- They are George Buchan
an, Ellis Garrett and Raymond
Skipper.
the honor roll for the third
grade in spelling are the follow
ing: Troy Hand, Aubrey Lifsey,
Paul Rhones and Littie Mae Lif
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GRIFFIN BOY MAKING
GOOD RECORD AT TECH
Monday’s Constitution carried a
picture of Lawson Johnson, pop
ular Griffin boy, and the son of
Mrs. Mobley Johnson, who is cap
tain of the track team at Geor
gia Tech this year. Young John
son is making an enviable rec
ord in scholarship as well as ath
letics
Eskimos haxe been taught to
use the deposits of coal in the
far north for fuel.
Automatic telephones are com
ing into general use in Great
Britain.
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jk m K started now makes it
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€ \ EVEN AMOUNT CLUBS
XMAS In SO Weeks for Xmas 1925
\ 25c Chib $12.50; 50c
SAVEVG pays
XK t ruArjy i Club pays $25; $1.00 Club pay?
i ' \m / /rt 5 /u // 7 $5.00 $50; $2.00 Club Club $250; pays $10.00 $100;
•* w» pays
Club pays $500; $20.00 Club
X # pays $1000.
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l( INCREASING CLUBS DECREASING 1
1 * 4Z- - Iil 50 Weeks for Xmas 1925 CLUBS
( lc Club pays $12.75; 2c Club You the largest can begin with
'Vv V $25.50; 5c Club deposit
ll pays pays and decrease each
I $63.75; 10c Club pays $127.50. week.
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City National Bank
V Griffin, Georgia
WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR YOU—SO COME IN AND JOIN
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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We are told that Paris spon
sors jeweled bandeaus for shorn
tresses. Here are three examples
of crowns that are correct, for mi
lady to wear with her evening
frock
C. OF G. BAND WILL
BROADCAST PROGRAM
THURSDAY NIGHT
Thursday, December 18, from 8
to 9 p. m. will be Central, of
Georgia night at the broadcasting
station of the Atlanta Journal,
WSB (429). The famous Central
of Georgia Shop Band will give a
program of typical Southern melo
dies, ai«d L. A. Downs, president
of the railroad, will make a brief
address on the resources of Geor
gia and Alabama.
Last April the band gave a con
cert which was heard in 28 differ
ent states and which was so well
received that it was asked to give
another program.
Those hearing the coqpert are
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asked to communicate with J. D.
McCartney, assistant to the presi
dent, Cental of Georgia Railway
Company, Savannah, Ga.
THOMAS A. B UTTAR
Thomas A. Butler of Corston,
Coupar-Angus, Scotland, one of the
bect.known sheep breeders In the
world, will attend the fortieth an
niversary meeting of the American
Shropshire Registry association at
Chicago, November 29 to December
8, and Judge the Shropshire Tlasees
at the international Live Stock ex
position.
TRY NEWS WANT ADS.
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ATLANTA BAB ASSOCIATION
PAYS TBIBUTE TO LATE
COtSONEL P. H. BBEWSTEB
Atlanta, Dec. 15^—Men^rial
services were held in Judge John
D. Humphries’ court room Satur
day by- the Atlanta Bar„ Associa
tion in tribute to the late Colonel
Patrick Henry Brewster, distin
guished Atlanta lawyer, who died
several weeks ago.
Resolutions memorializing his
life were unanimously adopted j
JFORMER CARAWAY STATE SENATOR
R. D. IS DEAD
Washington, Ga., Dev. 15.—For
mer State Senator Richard D. Cal
la way died Saturday night at - II
o’clock at his homd'here following
an illness of two years, the result
of an attack of paralysis which
rendered him an invalid. He was
66 years old. Until the time of
being stricken, Mr. Callaway was
one of Wilkes county’s most active
and enterprising citizens.
The Malay language is spoken
by nearly 50,000,000 persons. It
is said to be easy to learn, as it
has almost no grammer.
Egyptian carpenters possessed
practically every tool used by
modern members of the craft
3,50.0 years ago. 1
Many wild hors.es are being
trapped in northern Nevada to
be broken for use by the U. S.
cavalry.
Long distance connections .can
not be made over private tele
phones in Columbia.
PROCLAMATION. - *
Griffin, Ga., Dec. 15,, 1924.
By virtue of authority invested
in me by law, I hereby designate
the territory bounded as follows,
to-wit: Chapel stree% on north,
fourth street on the east, Poplar,
street on the south and Eleventh
street on the west, within which
it shall be unlawful to shoot fire
works or any explosives or to
send up toy balloons or any rock
ets whatsoever. I further direct
all officers of the city of Grif
fin to strictly enforce the above
order, beginning with this pub
lication and extending through
Christmas holidays and immedi
ately arrest any and all persons
violating the same.
Witness my official signature
this 15th day of December, 1924.
J. S. TYtfB.
Chairman of Board of Com
missioners, City of Grif
. fin,
AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT
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Monday, December 15,
Ancient Cast am
“There’s a chap I’ve bec*L to a
quandary about for a year,” BaW a •
man, indicating another who had -
Just passed. ”1 don’t know whether
I iilte him. You see, he liaa a prej
.udice aguitrst shaking hands. He
just naturally won’t if there is a
possible chance of getting out of it.
He always manages to have some
thing else to do when a person to
whom he is introduced gets ready to
extend the glad hand. That chap
says that handshaking is a survival,
of an ancient existing custom today. that has He in- no j
reason for
sists if there is anything he dislikes ,
it is to grasp some stranger’s moist j
paw and give it a shake, for when i
he does so he wants to sneak away l
and wash his own. I’ve heard him
expatiate upon the subject just af- !
ter avoiding a handshake with some
one- to whom I introduced him. I
almost, guess 1 don’t like him.”— I
Detroit News. - <
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Because few Germans can af
ford to buy jewelfy, practically
all that is made there is being
shipped to other countries to be
sold.
The largest bell in the world
is the “Czar Kolokol” in Moscow,
made about 250 years ago and
weighing more than 100 tons.