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Monday, December 52, 1924. JOSSELYN'S , i WIFE SI il Kathleen h Norris fl 1 wm Illustrations by Vrfy ■ Mysry V. e / i * •* ’ III V, ,1 • & • A 1 v h h V *i*Ht /ihg •U didn't say ‘ut. v .»' or 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 1 JJEKDCOLDS I Melt in spoon; inhale V 1 apply finely up nostrils. VJOKS 0»r JmwUmmd Ymmtiy i u, / < r i£5^*? Air \v\ N 4^ ^ 1-t k fill i Mi‘1 •. v tf' i >>?■ V & > A ; H systematically tart to save i now- for next years Xmas gifts and you wont have todisa •yi'jm anyone because you have insufficient money / * v":j] s !. V'.V j U ! 'a EVEN AMOUNT CLUBS In SO Weeks for Xmas 192S XMAS 7 25c Club pays $12.50; 50c SAVEVG Club pays $25; $1.00 Club rwvo / pays /»!// $50; $4.00 Club pays $100; y tn i $5.00 Club pays $250; $10.00 Chib pays $500; $20.00 Club pays $T000. INCREASING CLUBS DECREASING 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. CITY NATIONAL BANK We’re Looking For You—So Come In and Join < 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- S. G. BAILEY tt 4 B. Solomon 3 1/ Real Estate and Insurance i Get in touch with me for CITY ANDFARM PROPERTIES S. G. BAILEY Real Estate & Insurance Phones: Office 2 Res. 1 GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS 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. “***»* y ’ I>1( Tomra J conie. “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 i? i\ 1 “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 rr f i) 41 L 1 21 iF 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 p f' h 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 Q I Hi i /. m 'tr 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. wrtnmmrniTmnimiwimiT n i m iiiiift BBifn w n i ii ii wwift i n mmmrn 1 Christmas Cards k lc to $1.00 Pickering's J J : FOR GIFTS i '■ u m a "'"(iijuvi 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 v_ ;. . _ 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. r — 1 .................... v 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 w COLUMN — 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: — FOR SALE: One new leather belt, 18 feet by 3 inches. Phone A. J. Mills, 327. 1 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. A 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. H a V V V Just Back From St. Louis Have a load of goodf MULES 7 . SEE- THEM BLAKE BROS. V _ 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 ■■ S