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, vvv: Market Reports er Parsley, Slaton A Co.’s Pnvsto Wire.) 9* sw Orleans Cotton PVI I i'Kev iQpenjHigh! Low ifTscjCIos e in. 124.05 24.44j24.03 24.4lj23.88 Mch. !24.1,0 24.57 24.18 24.55 24.02 May J24.48 24.87 24.48 24.85 24.32 Jui. .24.60 24.1)3 24.68 24.90 24.41 Spots—Middling 50 up—24.40. New York Cotton """ ' " ......jjfirev < IQpen High Low Cl’sejCloae Jan. 23.85 24.35 23.85 24.32 23.8ft Mch. 24.25 24.75 24.20 24.72 24.14 May 244 25.10 24.63 25.06 24.48 Jui. 2tf78 25.22 24.77 26.17 24.01 Spots—Middling 50 up, 24 80. i •Oriffin Spot Cotton "tSood Middling 23.60. Strict Middling 23.25. Middling 23.00. At the Churches CHRISTIAN CHURCH Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Evening services, 7 p. m. Christian Endeavor, 6 p. m. The pastor will preach at both the ^regular services. We invite the public to the little church with the big welcome. O. K. Cull, Pastor. SACRED HEART CATHOLIC The Sacred Heart Catholic church is • located in the residen tial section ot North Hill street, Sunday school held every Sun day morning at 9:30 o’clock. Mas* and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be held on the second Sunday of each month. The public is cordially invited to attend. Father Clark, Pastor. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday school 9:30 a. m. (Pre seesion work, 9:15.) x Morning worship, 11 o’clock, pastor’s subject, “A Watchword ipf the N?w Year. Westbrook Junior B, Y. P. U •* 3:00 p. m, Arnold and Westbrook Senior Unions, d:00 p. m. At 7:80 p. m., there will be a special service for the College students, who are spending the holidays at home. All of the High Sechool students are especially in vited to this service. Leon M. Latimer, Pastor. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Morning worship, 11 o’clock. Subject: “The Hour of Decision. Evening worship, 7 o’clock. Subject: “Builders for God. Sunday school, 9:45. Men's Bible class in the manse at ten o’clock. Christian Endeavor, 6:15 p. m. Prayer service Wewnesday eve ning, 7 o’clock. A cordial welcome always at "The Church with the Open Door. • t Malcolm R. Williamson, Pastor. Dogs have been successfully fit ted with ^VVVVVVvvvvyVYvvW false teeth. 1 Life of Soviet Envoy's Sought m' '■ m ■ ■ !$?4yS m ms I urn K*' y o 4? m t F rench secret service officials are trying to discover whether Miss Marie Dickson, Russian writer, was carrying out part of a^ well formed plot to slay Leonid " Hi first soviet ambassador Pi !. She was arrested before the embassy in Paris and •v to shoot have the admitted her in to envoy. English Rail Wreck in Which Twelve Died Is Probed Am 'M a® AW rnn fZ i i* 4 I r ■ ■ y y wm \m f u. ‘■V.- 5 P & 01 > y as . ; : : o " :■* t .. ■ I % {/ cX; Wm v ; j: ■fti wm m English authorities are investigating the circumstances of the wrek of the Lfverpool-Blackpool express, in which 12 persons were killed and a score or more seriously injured. Two of the coaches were smashed to bits and a third caught fire. This night photo shows the overturned locomotive. Red Shirts in Rome Attacked by the Fascisti ** : ■ ■ 1 J hu 3 I - ajM, :W :• j.v: W: : ,.y ' ■ y % , - S: : ; : ■ V i . Y : 3 : : : m . r i* " r% ■ m ■ ; m A- .. .'S' .v’J-fix i '' ■y.y V ' V; ip m--’ :• ■i mm szaraa SB During the Armistice day celebration In Rome a party of Red Shirts led by Gen. Peppino Garibaldi was marching down the Porta del Popolo when it was attacked by a squadron of Fascisti. A eamerman got this remarkable photograph in the midst of the exchange of pistol shots. Founder of St. Augustine Laid in a New Tomb A-.mrn / m. - ■ A II Sm A 1 : 'im i ! i Wy^yy : [%. . LC'.'L'L I! * m i i s l 11 mm % /. mm, i imm ; * v - .‘m ; %.y ) >' J \ 1/ m ■r f : l£2SL-i : : ; I ) ■■ Sr ■ ■ mi 4 % i ■■ : US*. : .<■ ■ # ■ A With much pomp and ceremony the remains of Don I'edro Menendez, founder of the city of St. Au gustine, Fla., were moved recently to a permanent tomb at Aviles, Spain. A delegation from St. Augustine took part in the ceremonies. The illustration shows the procession and, at the right, the tomb in which the body was placed. Warships of the Czar’s Navy Rotting in Baku Bay • i a a "\ «*• a i ) >, < t, N+i>':V . ' ■< 4:- t • V. $: '■ - ’ Above are shown some of the ships of the former Russian imperial navy, rotting away in the Bay of Baku, where they have lain for several years. NAPIER SUGGESTS AUTO SALE CARDS TO REDUCE THEFTS Atlanta, Ga., Dec, 27.—Attorney General Napier asked that a bill of sale certificate, in the form of ilLcard to be carried in the pocket oAbillfold, be furnished to ail auto%)bjle owners in "Georgia. Mr. Napier pointed out that af present there is no quick and cer- tain method by whkk the police can determine whether a car has been stolen, whereas if the owner carried such a card on his person, he could easily produce it and prove his ownership when ques tioned. If a legitimate borrower was driving the car, he could either borrow the owner’s identifi cation card, or refef the police to the owner, if questioned. GRIFFIN DAILY PURSLEY APPOINTED DISTRICT LEADER G. P. Pursley has been appoint ed by Dr. J. H. Eakes as district lay leader for the Griffin district of the Methodist church, succeed ing the late A. P. Patterson. An Eskimo from Baffin’s Land caught a cold on the first day of his visit to London recently. Kiddies’ Evening Stbry By MARY GRAHAM BONNER Boma’s Monkey Act Bonin, the chlmpiinzfM), hurt been having n nine timp. He bud J \ i it V u Boma Would Hunt. “Is that piece used up? Well, here’s another one for you." Bourn was told by the keeper to hunt for the piece of string. And Boma would hunt for It. He would I pull the straw this way and then that way. The keeper would say: ‘‘Try over here, Boma,” and Boma would walk over to another part of his great cage and look again. Then the keeper would say: “Think, Boma. what would be a good hiding place?" Then Boma would stop and his forehead would wrinkle up and he would look from side to side as though to say: ■ Now let me think for a moment:” Then he would Rtart looking for the string again. Sometimes the keeper would say: Now you’re nearer it,” and Bo ma would look very hard about that spot. He had just been playing this game with the keeper. He had also rushed about and hnd done the dif ferent things the keeper had told him to do. He hnd been swinging and leap ing and doing his fine circus tricks and when the keeper had said: "Now hurry off to bed,” be had rushed up to his bed, which was built up quite high in his cage and which, The too, was covered with straw. people had all thought It was wonderful the way he had under stood what had been said to him and that he had rushed about to do these tricks so easily, and merely by be ing told, in-fr-kw- voleerim^io-them: After a time he grew tired of tlftse tricks. He felt as though he must do more to attract the atten tion of the crowd who were watch ing him. So he got in front of them and he began to make funny faces. He wriggled up his face on one side and then on the other, and he made all sorts of funny faces. How the people did laugh at him. Boma was delighted. He kept on doing more and more of this and Ills face looked too ab surd for words. Then the keeper spoke to him. “Boma,” he said, “the people don’t think you've been clever now. They’re only laughing at you. “It is not because they think you are smart. It Is simply because you are so foolish that they are laugh Ing. “Don't make a monkey of your self, Boma." Now Boma, it is true, belonged to the monkey family, but he knew that when the 7S keeper said. . Don’t make a monkey of your self,” it meant that he was only- ■ « acting in a silly, silly way. Maybe it was (■ a funny speech to make to a chimpanzee, a member of the ft 1 monkey family, but Boma un derstood if. All of a sud den he stopped making faces, lie stopped making a clown of him- He Had Been self and, with a Swinging. great rush, he had hurried back, to his bed of straw in the corner of his cage and had hidden his head in shame. After a time he came forth again and did fine tricks and leaped about gaily and had a beautiful time, but he didn’t “make a monkey of him self’again—not for some time, any way, as he didn’t want to be laughed at because lie was foolish. No, be didn’t want that at all, and the keeper understood that. Boma wanted people to think he was clever. He didn’t want them to think hr would make r Wffkey of him self f (0, 1914, Weitaro Newspaper Union.) Georgia is distinguished with having the largest tobacco plan tation in the entire world. PETITION FOR DISCHARGE In the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District of Georgia. In re M. H. Kendrick, Bankrupt, No. 10548—In Bankruptcy. A petition for discharge having been filed in conformity with law by the above-named bankrupt, and the Court having ordered that the I 0 hearing upon said petition be had on Jan. 31, 192i>, at ten o’clock a. nj.» at the United States Dis trict Court room, in the city of ATLANTA, Georgia, notice is hereby given to all creditors and other persons in interest to ap pear at said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the bankrupt for discharge should no be granted. O. C. Fuller, Clerk. been plnylng "Hnni for-the piece-of-stving.” The keeper p I n y e d that same w'th him. Me liked it. Now, Windy, the orang-utan, was always fond of the straw game. He liked to have ti is bad; rubbed with a piece of straw, and each rime the person who was rubbing ids back would stop, Windy would hand out another piece of straw, as though to Saturday, December 27, 1924 WomaikSs^sfei^Syndicaie^ yj». of Ticket Scalpers , Charge h X m 1 V W.-X- 1 .* .-•ft. . mm wm . •■*v : m •• „ w ; i IP •v. Wm Wm ' . ■mm & m - %y mmm ; §|§ >cV •' • : ' 'V ■m V §$$11 , ■ ' -i sr m. m : ■i m m;. : C.V mm K p 11 : ' V n • * m , v 4 / . II S tw . mmm mm- • v y -t mm-m .■ Vv m z ; ' mm y: :• v •v :V iff mm y ■my- m mm P- v--v. -vv m ■m. S ^ ■ i © ■ ■:VV Zif ■■ -• V ■ :i.V 'Z&L zmZm'm {y—* Investors in an alleged fake ticket, scalpers syndicate in Chi cago which cleaned up $‘200,000, insisted that police take into eus tody Mrs. Maybclle Fuller Douglas as well as her husband, Capt Bruce Douglas. The latter has been released on bonds. The m- i vestors allege Mrs. Douglass helped talk them into investing. She denies any participation in the syndicate’s activities. \ Brooks News ] V_■ — _ The Christmas holidays have passed off quietly here, The weather has been very cold and disagreeable so far._____________________________________ There was ginned in Fayette county to December 13, 7,100 bales of cotton, compared with 3,344 on the same date last year. The Rev. Earl H. Dunn, of Mercer University, of Macon, is spending 3ome time with rela tives at Brooks. Miss Kathlyne Crawford, of Brooks, who is teaching at Or lando, Fla., is spending the holi days here with friends. ' Miss Alma Couch, of Atlanta, is spending the holidays here with Miss Nelms. Miss Maggie May Pollard, of Brooks, who is teaching school at Aberdeen in Fayette county, is spending the Christmas holi days here with home folks. Dr. Worth Gable, of Brooks and Griffin, will leave about Jan uary 1, for Tampa, Fla., to make his home. Dr. Gable has many friends in this section who re gret very much to see him leave, but wish him much success. Miss Sophie Woods, of Brooks, is among the new subscribers to the 3 * Semi-Weekly News with this issue. Ernest Coppedge, of Brooks, student at a college at Wilmore, Ky., is spending the holidays with his father, C. E. Coppedge. Jesse Stephens, of Brooks, stu dent at Emory College, is at home for the holidays, Miss Mary Hewell, who is teaching school at Tyrone, in Fay ,, tte county , - ig spending ,. , va iation^jyXyLto F. M. Henderson, of Brooks, has been sick for several days. His friends wish him an early recovery. Mrs. R. W. Lynch, of Griffin, is spending the winter with her son, A. O. Lynch, at Tampa, Fla. Miss Douise Travis, of Fayette v jn e , and Howell Hardy, of ■ ■* — FATHER-and the BOYS- ^lET the boys started right in their banking arrangements. The privilege is theirs, to take advantage of the vast resources behind the Federal Reserve System—if not know—later. Your Bank can’t be too strong. Your Bank can’t be too strong l SRC0ND NATIONAL BANK PPr*>»MBER^| FEDERAL RESERVE tofcs. 8Y8TKM 25 Brooks, were united in marriage on the afternoon of December 23, at Fayetteville, the Rev. Mr. Bird officiating. They are two of Fayette county’s most popular young people, and have many friends who are extending hearty congratulations and best wishes. T. C. Malone, who has been in Atlanta very sick for several weeks, has been moved back to his home in Fayetteville and is very little better. His many friends wish him anearly recov ery. Sam Price and family, of Colo rado, are visiting his brother, D. J. Price, and family at Brooks. Sanr-formerly resided at Brooks, but has been away for about 20 years. He has many friends who are glad to welcome him home on a visit. A large number of fine hogs have been killed in this section during the past few days and the farmers are feasting on fresh meat. R. L. Matthews, of Brooks, probably killed the largest one in Fayette county Thursday, it netted 700 pounds. He has killed three others that netted between 300 and 400 pounds each. Nonie Chambers, of Brooks, is in Columbus for the Christmas holidays. APPLICATIONS FOR MARRIAGE LICENSES William J. Buffington, 28, and Selina Hadden, 20. Hugh O. Crowder, 30, and Sa die Anderson, 20. D. P. Phoenix, 25, and Ruby Thomas, 18. Ranee Jester, 26, and Hattie Banks, 45. Marriage Licenses Issued Ltrtffe Pritchett. William Barfield and Mattie F. Wesley. J Paul Brooks and Margaret Harper. A. F. Chambers and Ora Pend ley. R. E. Graves and Hallie W. Crane.