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Monday, December 52, 1924.
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Tommy elucidated cheerfully. “And
then I thought maybe Lizzie would
be cross at me for getting out of
bed.
“Getting out of bed? II
“Yes, when I went downstair*
But she was still to mother’s room
when I got upstairs, so I got into
bed and thought I’d tell her grand
pa wanted to see her when she
came back.”
“And why didn’t you, Tommy r
“I don’t remember. I guess I
went to sleep.”
“And what made you go down
stairs in the first place, Tommy r
his mother asked, her voice trem
bling in spite of her effort for con
trol.
“I couldn’t go ! to -Sleep because
you and Lizzie were talking so loud
and Lizzie was crying. 1 looked
out Into the hall, the door was open
—and grandpa was there and 1
asked him what be was doing and
he said he was sending a tele
gram—”
“Yes, that's perfectly correct,"
George said. "We found it on 1
hall table.”
“So then be said, ‘Come on down 1
and pay me a visit, old scout!’ and 1
I went And mother told me next;
day he was sick,” Tommy went on
pleasantly, as he worked busily
with the swivel of George’s watch
chain, “so pur—- *hnt was when he
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XMAS 7 25c Club pays $12.50; 50c
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In 50 Weeks for Xmas 1925 CLUBS
lc Club pays $12.75; 2c Club You can begin with
pays $25.50*^ 5c Chib the largest deposit
$83.75; pays and decrease each
10c Club, pays $1£7,50. week.
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was beginning to feel a little bit
sick. If I was a iiby, and they
caught me,” Tomrj added vain
gloriously, “I’d shoet so fast, and
my horse would ride so fast, that
1’4 get away from them, whether
they liked it or not! I’d—"
“Listen, Tom, George said.
“Down at my place at Sands Point,
do you know what I've got? I’ve
got a shaggy little gentleman who
came from the isle of Shetland—’*
“A pony !” Tommy whispered, his
eyes alight. “Mother, has he real
ly got a pony?” he asked, digging
his dark hair Into his mother’s
shoulder, and smiling In bashful de
light.
“I suppose be has.” Ellen an
swered smiling.
“And that pony,” George said Im
pressively, “will be your pony If
you’ll do something for me.”
Tommy glanced at his mother, ac
tually “Mother—he pale with joy.
Is going to give me
that pony!” he said, in an excited
breath. “Oh, mother, can I have
a pony ? He can stay at Hewlett’s,"
he decided swiftly. “Until we can
have a little stable built for him!
I could build It—or If a man came
All to do some need of Is tt, plankB I could help*hlm.
you and nails—”
“But how about doing something
for me ?” George’’asked.
“Sure 1” said Tommy, in the man
like, careless voice befitting the
owner 01 a pony. “171 ao anything."
“I want yen to come over to
Mlneola with mother and me. »•
George said. “Ana ten aTl this to
a man there—a friend of mine—all
about your grandfather, you know,
and the whole thing !"
“Why?" asked Tommy, Tound
eyed.
“That’s Just Wliat J -don’t want
you to ask. Tommy, nnd just wua«
I can’t very well explain to you. I
don’t ask you why you want this
pony,” George said pointedly. “Now,
this man will ask you lots ot ques
tions,” he went on, “‘ami you must
answer them. And If you can’t re
member anything, just say so.”
“All right!” Tommy agreed In
differently. "Has he got a saddle?"
“Mother’s going to give you a
saddle,” Ellen promised. She called
Lizzie. “Lizzie, will you take Tom
my upstairs and read to him, and
talk about the pony?” she asked,
with a significant look. And when
they were gone she turned to
George, and she and George and
Joe stared at each other.
“That Is the most extraordinary
thing that has come to me In the
entire course of my profession,"
George said, slowly, as If he had
been stunned. "I must get hold of
Ryan pt once. There's a point or
two—what do you make of his say
ing he fired the pistol twice?”
“Lizzie’s story agrees with that!
She had loaded it with only one
shell,” Ellen supplied quickly. “All
the chambers but one were empty."
“It was like the old man—I could
hear his voice," George mused, “ ‘I
Ryan surrender!’ If I can get hol’d of
1 Ellen, could you take the
child over there at once?”
“Anything—anywhere!” Her face
clouded. "But George, they won’t
take that baby into court—they
won’t cross-examine Tommy?”
“No—no 1" he said, smiling. “He’ll
simply talk to him, and it will be
taken down. You may trust Tom
my to me.”
“And, George—do you think?—
Is there any hope? Might they real
ly clear Gibbs for a thing like this?”
He put a hand on her shoulder,
as she stood looking fearfully up
at him. Ellen never forgot the joy,
the tenderness, the sympathy in
his eyes.
“My dear girl—my dear girl—I
think that In a few days Gibbs will
walk into this house with you to
have dinner with the captain and
Aunt Elsie 1”
The ecstasy of real hope, after
the weeks of pretense I The joy of
action and hurry after so many
days when there had been nothing
to do! It was a lowering winter
day, but to Ellen It seemed as If
the sun of June were shining.
It was a strange drive, over
snowy roads, and between bare
fields. It was Sunday, and In the
villages young people were laugh
ing and talking, as they lounged
about station platforms and candy
stores.
everybody Tommy talked talked Incessantly, w5h and'
to Tommy
unusual graciousness. Every toot
of the eight-mile trip had long Ago
become drearily familiar toJSllen,
It on had her daily drives to andxfro^ but
never seemed as long 7 as It
did today.
“George,” she said, at “I/bad parting on
the courthouse steps, better
not say anything to Gibbs?”
“I certainly would,” ae answered,
after a moment’s thought.
“Then—then you’re/ pretty sure,
George?” /
They exchanged / / long look. The
man nodded. Answered,
“So sure,” he “that I
would not take Tommy to see him
today. I wouldn’t have that asso
ciation in Tommy’s mind, It seems
to me."
“Oh, George—but 1 can’t believe
it!” she said dizzily. “If anything
happens now —I don’t think I can
bear it!”
“I don’t tfhlnk anything will, El
len,” he said In his quiet way. "Liz
zie had better come with me, for
they might keep us waiting, and I
don’t want Tommy to be fright
ened." He gave the child his hand.
“Come on, Tommy!” he said. “You
come with us, Lizzie, will you? By
the way, what are you going to
name your pony?”
Ellen watched them up the steps.
Then she turned to Joe, and went
quickly through the familiar doors
and gates.
“Will you wait here, Joe?” she
asked, as they came to a sort of
central hallway where a sergeant
sat reading at his desk.
“You haven’t got the little boy?”
the sergeant asked.
“No,” she said, flustered. “I—
we thought It better not to bring
him r
The man looked grave, came
about his desk and said something
In a low tone of which Joe only
caught >he words “tomorrow morn
ing.” Ellen -answered with a nerv
ous murmur of assent, and went
hastily away, Joe watching her go;
the big Jail was very still In the
winter afternoon.
She was familiar with every step
of the way, wow, the small corridor
smelling of cement. ;the longer cor-
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flfdor beyond, tne door of GiSSle
cell, a was unlocked for her, she
always Tent Inside.
He v?ss sitting on his bed, in the
narrov space, and she sat beside
him. He looked 111 and wretched,
and did not rise as she came in,
nor move except to raise his hag
gard eyes. The guard, at the door,
walked away.
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“I had an order from the court
that you might come Into the «r
geant’s office to see Tommy " Ellen
answered, trembling so violently,
that she was hardly consrtous of
what she was saying. But, Gibbs,
him. we thought It best not to bring
He nodded, looking down at his j
clasped hands. Ellen gave the
dropped patient head, tbe beautiful
idle fingers and the whole drooping
figure a look of Infinite compassion.
“Gibbs, dear,” she said, her tone
quivering treacherously. “The rea
son was that George thinks he has
new evidence.” *
“I knew he was trying to find
some,” Gibbs said wearily.
“You know, I’m so afraid of go
ing Into hysterics, or fainting, or
something,” Ellen said childishly.
“That I want you not to say you
don’t believe me when I tell you
something. Look at me, dear,” tak
ing both his hands. “Look at me.
Try to understand what I am say
ing. We think—we think—that—the
—the murderer has confessed."
- You think!” he echoed, his tone
suddenly harsh. “What do you
mean? Don’t yon know?"
“We will know,’’ she said trem
bling. “We will know In a little
while now. Gibbs, I’ll tell you
just how It all came about. Lizzie
and Joe and Tommy. came down
from Bridgeport this morning, and
it was while I was keeping Tommy
quiet—for Child—that it’s a long trip for a
he suddenly said some
thing about grandpa. Lizzie and I
were not listening exactly, but the
words seemed to come back to me
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“My -God!—My God!" He Whls
pared.
—as words do, you know, and 1
said, as quietly as I could, ‘What
did you say Vandpa let you do?’
“He said, ‘Fire his revolver. » »*
Ellen’s words fell In a tense silence.
Gibbs looked at her with awaken
ing eyes.
pered. “My God—my God!” be whis
“Well, we looked at him, and I
was so afraid I’d frighten him, <>r
make him self-conscious, that I
could hardly get any volee. But
Lizzie usked him when this was,
That and he he had told wandered us tbe whole thing!
to the top of
the stairs in his nightgown, and
grandpa was walking across the
lower hall: he had just put a tele
gram on the hall table, for Torrens
to take in the morning, and he
railed Tom down. Tommy said
that he wanted to play with the
chessmen, nnd he opened the table
drawer—Gibbs, you would be
amazed how clearly he told It! He
said grandpa was sitting In that
very chair, and Gibbs, he even took
the attitude-! He said that he
saw the pistol, and grandpa said,
“He couldn't possibly have load
ed It, dear, with dad looking on.
And my father surely wouldn't have
had It loaded—!”
“But, Gibbs, Lizzie had loaded
It that morning!”
"G—d!” Gibbs said again, under
his breath.
“And this part, Gibbs, Is so
strange! He fired It twice, your fa
ther directing him. He fired first
at some target over the mantel, and
th en s oi nr wbf i c ■wto e — 8 ** 1 '
“Couldn’t pull the trigger—I”
Gibbs said breathlessly.
"Oh, Indeed he did! He fired
twice, but you see those chambers
were empty. And, Gibbs, he says
that grandpa said to him, ‘Good
old Tommy!’ You remember how
he used to say that? Then they
had some talk about soldiers, and
finally your father was a spy—and
the amazing thing Is, Gibbs, to hear
Tommy tell It—every few minutes
he would put In something that the
testimony had developed, an d Liz
tie and I would look at ea<*h other I
I couldn’t realise It—the Importance
of It, but I knew George was on
Ms way, and that he would know!
Welt, and then Tom got frightened,
and he tried to rouse your father,
and threw the pistol !n the basket,
and ran out and called for fizzle.
But Lizzie, of conrse, didn’t hear.
He wasn’t sure whether your fa
ther was fooling or not, but the
noise ef the report frightened him.
He was afraid he’d be scolded for
getting out of bed and going down
stairs so when he found Lizzie was
not to the room, he got Into bed
and before she came to, he fell
asleep. The nex“ day, of course,
ffe carefully kept any of the ex
citement away from hhn—"
“What does George think about
itr
- fWaU. I don’t know. But he tele
(T0 BE CONTINUED.)
The Actor’s
Christmas Party
By li. LUCIUS COOK
/WLL \2 Of the actors of the Zo
j roaster Stock company were
K( „„l, but perhaps Billy Kelly
waS the best liked by the townspe<>
,,i e . B lUy had been there six
weeks, now, and was living at Mrs.
Perkins’ on Center street. Hence
(’enter street was particularly
thrilled at this time, because It had
never before harbored u real live
actor, and It could not quite get
used to the idea.
Mrs. Perkins was a respectable
middle-aged widow who had to take
a few roomers to help out cm «*
pense*. She was not quite mam
that it was right to have
rooming there, as she had an in
herited prejudice against actor*,
but he paid her twice as muca cm
she had ever had before for Hits
rooms, and did not cause any ex teg
bother, and so far as she could de
termine, was a human being much
like the rest of us.
It did seem strange to her,
however, that a young unmarried
man should receive
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Is own room
and got his genuine Japanese silk
klmona and covered her with it.
She had found It over her when
she woke up.
Mrs. Perkins had Just finished
telling this pnd several other Inci
dents to the Ladles’ Aid society,
when one of the progressive ladles
asked:
“Well, what are we to do with
him for Christmas? It doesn’t
seem right not to do anything, when
he Is away from his people
All.”
Everyone else had been thinking
the same thing, but had not dared
mention It, and none of them had
any suggestions to make; No one
dared ask him to dinner (they were
so shy), and Mrs. Perkins
who really should have asked him,
had decided to go to the hotel
as not to have to do so. They
tainly could not give him
or socks, as Mrs. Perkins
them that he had hundreds
socks and thousands of ties,
everyone readily believed, as
had never seen him dressed
the same.
It certainly looked like a
Christmas for Billy, But
door to Mrs. Perkins lived a
old maid who had been
er for the Wellers for many
Every Christmas she made
for all the children In the
borhood, and when they grew
big for mittens, she gave candy
the girls and neckties to the
She was a community
bqt nobody ever thought of her
connection with Billy.
But when. Christmas morning
rived, and Center street was
with Its toys, Billy had not
forgotten. The Perkins
were Just opening their
from the housekeeper next
when one of them discovered an
velope for Billy. He darted
stairs and timidly knocked on
actor's door and slipped the
velope under.
“What could it be?”
Mr8 ’tor she knew it
no a She ^ h L had s l mas not * long , carJ ’. to wonder,
e ver ’ far 5°** S00n runn|
, n ^‘? ar 8 ' n * ® crisp new
fh! 1 W I Rm he “m
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gested to him
to give a party
next door In
honor of the
housekeeper.
He told her to
take the chil
dren over
there quickly,
as he would
be back in
twenty min
utes.
True to his
word, he was
there in twen
ty mlnutes,
and with him
whole Ladles’
Aid society, and, to* the delight of
everyone, a whole gallon of Ice
cream which he and the kindly
housekeeper served to all assem
bled, with many jokes and much
merriment. Then Billy sang some
rousing Chrlstnlas songs, kissed tbe
housekeeper on the brow and tax
ied all the ladles home.
He had so many 'lnvltstlons to
dinner he had to refuse them ail,
but he was not sorry for this as
he joined Mrs. Perkins at the ho
tel, and he really liked her best
of all.
1M4, WmUi-b N*wap.per Union )
Might Have Been Worse
“What did your wire give yon
for 'Christmas?*
“Nothing.”
"That was tough."
“Well, it might have been a neck
tie or a smoking Jacket.”
CONFE8SION.
<4 Jack kissed me last night.”
How many times?”
n I came to confess,
not to
boast. ♦ »
and fifty dol
lars ® week
when Mr. Per
kins with his
family had
earned only
that much a
month. She
wondered if It
was honest.
And then, too,
she did not al
ways k n o w
just what to
make of Billy’s
attentions to
her. Why, one
time when she
had fallen
asleep on the
sofa without; a
covering, he
ad gone to
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Georgia mules
KILLED BY *RAIN
Macon, Ga., Dec. 22.—The north
Dixie Flyer Sunday morn
ing ran into a herd of 76 mules
and horses at the Echeconnee
crossing, Dixie highway and Cen
tral of Georgia railway. Sixteen
mules and one horse were killed.
The train was not derailed, but
was delayed.
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STATE AND COUNTY
TAXES ARE DUB
Books close December 20. In
terest and cost charged after De
cember 20.
T. R. NUTT, \mx Collector
NOTICE OF SALE.
On Tuesday, January 6, 1925,
eleven shares of the common stock
of The Brooks Bank, Brooks, Ga.,
of the par value of fl00 per share
will be sold to the highest bidder
for cash. Sale to be- held before
the court house of Spalding county
between legal hours of sale. Said
eleven shares of stock were pledg
ed to Savings Bank of Griffin by
Sam Boykin to secure a debt.
Proceeds of sale to apply on that
debt, remainder, if any, to be paid
to representatives of his estate.
Stock to be sold represented by
certificates number 49, 68 and 60.
BECK A BECK, Attorneys
for Savings Bank of Grif
fin.
PROCLAMATION.
Griffin, Ga., Dec. 16, i»24.
By virtue of authority invested
in me by law, I hereby designate
the territory bounded as follows,
to-wit: Chapel street 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
lication and extending through
Christmas holidays and immedi
ately arrest any and all persons
violating the same.
Witness my official signature
this 16th day of December, 1924.
J. S. TYUS.
Chairman ef Board ot Com
missioners, City of Grif
fin,
[ LODGE DIRECTORY
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WARREN LODGE
No. 20, I. O. O. F., meets every
Lodge Monday Hall. night at 7:30 at Warren
Visiting brothers cor
dially invited. Atkinson. R. A. Peel, Secre
tary; W. T. N. G.
MERIDIAN SUN LODGE
No. 26, F. & A. M. Regular meet
ing Election Tuesday, December 16. 7 p. m.
of officers. C. H. Scales,
W. M.; Bill Wells, Secretary.
BEN BARROW LODGE
No. 587, F. & A. M., East Griffin.
Regular meetings first and third
Thursday nights in each month.
Next meeting January 1. Visiting
Brothers cordially invited to meet
with us at all times. J. L. Vinson,
W. M.; Clifford Grubbs, Secretary.
w. o. w.
Meets every Thursday, 7:30 p. n
Sovereigns, your camp needs y OH
presence. You will -find your Cl er
all times at Slaton-Powell -Cloth
ing Co. Visiting sovereigns wel
come. Come. L. J. Saulev. C. C.:
C. C. Stinky, Cleric.
PYTHAGORAS CHAPTER
No. 10, R. A. M. Regular meet
ing second and fourth Thursdays.
7:30 p. m. Visitors welcome. Win
T. Atkinson, H. P.; Bill Wells,
Secretary.
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Funeral Directory •
E. D. FLETCHER
Funeral Director and
Embalmer
with
Griffin Mercantile Co.
Office Phone 474 Res. Phone 481
HAISTEN BROS.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND EMBALMER8
Griffin and Senoia, Ga.
Office Phone 675. Res. Phone 8$
Frank S. Pittman
Modem Funeral Home.
112 W. Taylor St.
Office Phone 822 Rea. Foone 882
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COLUMN
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FOR RENT—Two unfumis
rooms, downstairs; private b*
light and water. Phone 1041.
FOR RENT: Apartment, core liM
Hill and Oak streets. Possess!
January 1. Phone 21. :• *
FOR SALE: Old fashioned Geor
gia barbecue Saturday and next
week. Will sell any amount. G.
W. Jones Filling Station and Bar- *
becue Stand, beyond Jim Grave*
Phone 644-W, .
FOR SALE: Pecans, M:
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FOR SALE: One new leather
belt, 18 feet by 3 inches. Phone
A. J. Mills, 327.
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FORDOR SEDAN FOR SALE ,
1925 model. Brand ney. Never
driven. Discount worth while. In
vestigate. Phone 869.
WANTED: BOYS WITH
WHEELS WANTING PAPER
ROUTES. SEE CIRCULATION
MANAGER, AT GRIFFIN DAILY
NEWS.
WANTED AT t)NCE: 3 room
furnished apartmeht. J. R. Ty
ler, Griffin Hotel.
1,000 BUSHELS
High grade cotton seed for
planting, pure Wannamaker
Cleveland variety seed saved from
white cotton only; no trout bites.
Ginned on our own private gins
under my personal supervision.
Prices unsacked at gin at Bir
die, Ga., $1.25 per bushel.
In sacks, F. O. B. Griffin, Ga.,
$1.50 bushel. A few Over-the
Top at same prices. m
J. E. ELDER,
607 South Hill Street,
Griffin, Ga.
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WANTED immediately,
rienced stenographer, Accurs
and speed necessary,
with general office work- essential
Apply at once to Box 412, Grif
fin. ©
WANTED: Cow peas, O-too 1.
and Laredo Beans. H. V. 1
Company.
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MULES 7 .
SEE- THEM
BLAKE BROS.
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Railroad Schedule J
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA EY,
Arrival and ,Dpeartnre of
ger Trains At Griffin, Ga.
The schedules art published
information and an not guar
anteed:
■■■■■■■PI North South III
2:29 pin Atbmta-BaVh llriMpn *
4:30 am Atlanui-Sav’n 9:04
6:49 am Chgo-Cin-Jax 10:27pm
7:17 am Chgo-StE-Jax 7:97 pm
8.57 am Atlanta-Mucon 6:24 pm
12:26 pm Atlanta-MAeon 2:17 pm
6:30 pm Atlanta-Alb’ny 12:88 am
6:20 am Chicago-Jax 8:50 pm
Chattanooga Division
From For
2:30 pm Chattanooga 9:45 am
8:16 Cedartoown 6:26
SOUTHERN RAILWAY I
Atlanta Points— 9
6:68 pn East—West 10:02 am
10:02 am CI-bus-Ft. V’y 6:68 pm
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