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3 PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM THE COUNTY JAIL
HERE; OTHERS STAY PUT
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Negroes Use Ladder To
Exit Through Roof of
Building.
Three prisoners in the Spalding
county jail escaped last night.
With the use of a ladder they
made their exit thi-ough a ventila
tor in the roof of the building, and
then unlocked the jail door.
Five other prisoners made no at
tempt to escape.
The escape was made sometime
during the night and was -not
known until early today.
Negroes
Those gaining liberty were “Kid”
Stone, negro, who was given a
twenty-year sentence for breaking
into Persons-Hanimond’s store sev
eral years ago and who was re
. cently paroled; Brown Bivins, ne
gro charged with making liquor,
and “Sweet ’Searcy, negro, charged
with forgehy in connection wlfh an
attempt to pass a check on J. D.
Touchstone at the Merchants and
Planters Bank several days ago.
Desperado
Stone, the long termer, is re
garded as a desperado. He has
been in several difficulties and
tried for different offenses since
being paroled about six months
ago, hjs latest escapade being an
altercation with J. W. Hood on
December 22, in which he cut sev
eral gashes in Hood’s face.
Order Received
An order was received from the
prison commission this morning to
the effect that Stone ha’d violated
the terms of his parole and an
order sent to have him returned
to County Warden Randall at the
county chain gang to serve the Te
mainer of his sentence.
ELEVEN WOMEN TO
HEAD COUNTY SCHOOL
WORK DURING 1925
Atlanta, Dec. 31.—Eleven wo
men have been designated heads
of as many county school systems
in Georgia, according to announce
ment at the. office of state school
superintendent. All have previ
ously served as teachers, several in
the Same counties in which they
have been elected to serve as su
perintendents.
They are Mrs. Zada Dozier
Walker, Crawford county, Rob
erts; Mrs. Kate Bradfield Brown,
Henry county, McDonough; Mrs.
S. W. Avera, Oglethorpe county,
Lexington; Miss Phoebe M. Broad
rick, v Whitfield county, Dalton;
Miss Ethel Turner, Atkinson coun
ty, Tucker; Miss Mfcry Hansard!
Elbert county, Elberton; Miss Vi
olet Tucker; Rockdale county, Con
yers!; Miss Annie Brumby, Polk
county, Cedartown; Miss Edith
Proctor, Camden county, Wood
bine; Miss McArthur Jones, Early
county, Blakely; Miss, Nina Cox,
Turner county, Ashburn.
Former Empress Says Son Will
Yet Be The Ruler of
Budapest, Dec. 81.—Further evi
dence of a reawakened Hapsburg
movement in Hungary is contain
ed in a letter sent from former
Empress Zita to Count Albert Ap
ponyi, as the representative of the
Hungarian Legitimists, in which
she thanks all those who sent her
Christmas gifts and says with con
viction that her son, "King” Otto,
will be reunited with his father
land.
The letter, written in Spain, fol
lows:
H Dear Count Apponyi
:
“I am overwhelmed by the many
gifts sent to the King and me as
tokens of the goodness of heart
and the loyalty of the Hung arian
people from all parts of the cotra-
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Pupils Are Urged By Officials
To Register Friday and
Saturday.
See here, children.
Holidays are nearly spent.
And soon it will be back to the
books. J,
The°fcity and county schools will
open Monday when the spring term
begins.
Preparations Made
Preparations have already been
made by school authorities for the
opening day. Even during their
brief vacation they have been busy
getting everything in readiness.
Superintendent Lester, of the
city schools, announces that his of
fice in the High school will be op
en Friday and Saturday for the
registration of pupils.
He states that $7 will be charg
ed for High school pupils and $1
will be required for the grammar
school.
Requested to Register
It is requested that all pupils
register before next week, as this
I™ 11 greatly facilitate Preliminaries
| and aid materially in speeding up
school work from the start.
Large attendance and satisfac
tory results marked the winter
term in both the ci i y 4nd countv
schools> and it ; g expected that
there will be a much larger atten
dance at the spring session begin
ning Monday.
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PREACHERS’ INSTITUTE
OF GRIFFIN DISTRICT
HELD HERE TUESDAY
At the Preachers’ Institute of
the Griffin district, held at the
Methodist church here Tuesday
morning, reports wdre made show
ing that the prospeets for the
conference year were gratifying.
Representatives were present
from all charges in the district and
others present included Dr. C. C.
J arre i] j 0 f the Golden Cross en
rollment; Dr. S. D. Wiggins, con
ference missionary secretary; Dr.
E. F. Dempsey, educational worker,
and the Rev. A. M. Pierce, editor
of the Wesleyan Christian Ad
vocate.
Dr. J. H. Eakes, presiding elder,
was in charg^ of the meeting.
ATLANTA PRISON WARDEN
WILL SOON BE NAMED
Washington, Dec. 31.—Attorney
General Stone will decide within
a.few .days on the name of a war
den for the Atlanta penitentiary
to succeed A. E. Sartain, deposed
warden and lately indicted by a
federal grand jury.
try and from all social strata.
“Here, in the distant, foreign
l»nd, 7 feel doubly the warmth of
our subjects and the loyalty of
their loving hearts, which, I-be
lieve is directed not only toward
the widow of their King of bless
ed memory and his orphan, but is
t harbinger of thdr faith in Hun
gary’s future.
“Their King grows up in this
indomitable faith—a faith which
trill reunite him in the’ dear Fath
erland with his beloved Hungarian
nation.
“I beg you to communicate our
royal gratitude to all those who
have sent gift* and manifestations
of their touching loyalty.
“ZITA."
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GRIFFIN, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1924.
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The little frame schoolhouse. may be doomed by the fire which destroyed the Babb’s Switch school
near Hobart, Okla., and burned 33 to death, A movement nation wide in scope has been started to pre
vent repetition of such disasters, 1 he ruins of the school are seen above. Below is photo of thc
a
school taken sometime before the fire. Inset is a photo of Mrs. Glenn Hill, teacher, who died heroi
cally in the flames.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXTENDS
NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS TO ALL
CITIZENS OF CITY AND COUNTY
Gives Horoscope of the New Year and Urges Business Men
and Citizens Generally To Co-operate More Completely ,
For Great Achievements During 1925. I
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(By C. C. Thomas, Secretary-Mgr.)
As the old year passes out and
the new is ushered in, the Griffin
and Spalding County Chamber of
Commerce desires to extend a
Happy New Year’s greeting to
every business man and citizen of
the city and county.
Shakespeare has truly said that
there is a tide in the affairs of
men, which taken at the flood leads
on to fortune. It is equally true
that there are tides of opportunity
in the affairs of every city and
county, which taken at their flood
lead that city of county on to a
greater physical development in
which its citizens find a higher
plane of health, happiness and
contentment.
Such a tide in the affairs of
yourselves and myself, as citizens
of Griffin and Spalding County—
such a tide of opportunity in the
affairs of our city as a municipal
ity and of our county as a great
community, now confronts us.
Shall we take it at its flood or
shall we let it recede unrealized,
leaving us and our city and county
floundering in the uncharted mo
rass of shallows and undeveloped
hopes ?
Vision of the New Year
Let no man becloud the vision' of
the New Year’s opportunities with
his experiences of the old year just
passing out.
If the business man has made a
success during the year passed aftd
accomplished all those things he
has sought, then may he enter the
new year with renewed vigor and
courage for the accomplishment of
greater things, but, if ou toe other
hand, failure or lack of success
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has been 4 his ^cperience, then’
as
the part of wisdom let him madej/get profit
by the mistakes he has
a real vision of his new year^B op
portunities and redouble efforts
to bring to a happy fruition his
fondest dreams of success.
The same opportunities that pre
sent themselves to the individual
citizen for progress and develop
ment are also presenting them
selves to our city and county as a
collective body of citizens.
lounty Has Wonderful Opportunity
Of all the counties in the grand
old state of Georgia, there are
none that can excel our own coun
ty of Spalding- hi fertility of soil;
healthful climate; auspicious sea
sons or superb citizenship. Her
history is a record of sturdy de
velopment by her sturdy sons of
toil along all lines of agricultural
expansion. The fact that within
her confines has been located for!
years the Georgia Experiment Sta- j
tion, where men of science tickle |
her soil and make accurate tests |
for the guidance and information
of our sister counties, is but con
clusive evidence of her eternal
fitness for great agricultural de
velopment.
Spalding county has great op
portunities for the coming year
and the horoscope of the new
year should have a vision of a
more economic production of crops;
a greater production of food prod
ucts; a larger production of hogs
and beef cattle and a development
of the dairying industry. The
county has now a great opportun
ity to provide a new, modern and
well equipped school house in
every school district in the county
so that the children throughout
the county, even in the remotest'
section, may have an equal advan
tage in acquiring a common school
education.
Griffin’s Sp^d Future
There is no one who can gainsay
the'fact that the city of Griffin has
a splendid future before it and
wonderful possibilities for devel
opment during the coming year.
With the splendid record made in
the past; with her seven success
(i
ful cotton mills and two bleach
cries in operation; with a $650,100
cotton mill m being erected and
another one now in process of or
ganization; with two hosiery mill*
uccessfully operating; three whole
sale houses doing splendid busi
ness; two buggy factories operat
ing on fuli time; the largest pi
mento packing plant in the world;
one of the largest proprietary
medicine factories in the South; a J
sash, door and body factory; a i
paper box factory; a large canning
factory and five safe, sound and
successful banks, the city has laid
a business and industrial founda
tion upon which she can build a
great and teeming textile and bus
iness center in the future.
One of the most essential insti
tutions for the growth and devel
opment of a city and county is a
live, up-to-date, progressive news
P a P er ’ which not only disseminates
the news, but which stands fo.'
progress and development and
joins whole-heartedly with all of
the other forces of the community
in workin * tor tbe common uplift
Griffin and Spalding county are
fortunate in having just such
newspaper -and one that is going
the limit in co-operating with the
Chamber of Commerce in progres
sive development.
Opportunity for Trade Expansion
Griffin is geographically in the
center of a large trade territory
and logically our business men
should grasp the opportunity dur
ing the coming year to expand
their business so as to reach to
the farthermost sections of this
territory. Instead of vast throngs
of people going to Atlanta daily
from this great section to trade,
they should be invited to Griffin
and by proper and legitimate ef
fort and publicity through our
newspaper, even by personal con
tact, by and through the direction
of our trade expansion committee,
be induce^ to make Griffin their
trading matt. That our merchants
have just as good quality of goods,
with equally as large variety of
stocks, and with prices even cheap
er than can be found in Atlanta,
is true, and it only remains for
our business men- to grasp the op
portunity, gefbusy along Fo-oper
ative lines and make all roads lead
to Griffin from this great undevel
oped trade territory.
County Fair opportunity Sould be Enlarged
Another to enlarge
Griffin's scope of influence and
County tijhde relationship Fair activities is to expand the in
so as to
terest and take in the counties ad
jacent to Spalding. Instead of hav
ing our annual fair to consist sole
ly of local county exhibits and at
tendance, let us invite our sister
‘counties to join with us into one
big annual fair, with exhibits and
visitors from every angle of the
compass, which will not only in
sure the success of the fair an
nually, but which will also have
the effect of making Griffin the so
cial and business center of the
great section which surrounds us.
Action Needed
But action is the key to oppor
tunity and the answw to responsi
oility. Action is the duty anb
P r > v >lege of those of us who have
the understanding and 1 the convic
tion - G?t us act and act promptly
in so arousing public conviction
based upon understanding that the
city ship shall float,upoi)'the flood
tide of opportunity into/the haven
and there take its rightful place
(Continued on Page 4.) ‘
COTTON MILLS HERE
TO START YEAR WITH
OWNERS OPTIMISTIC
TELEGRAPH
BULLETINS
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JUDGMENT AGAINST
LOEB REVERSED.
..Lansing, Mich., Dec. 31.—
(By the Associated Press.) —
The judgment obtained in
Charlevoix county court
against Richard Loeb„ convict
ed slayer of Robert Franks,
was reversed by the state su
preme court today. The case
revolved about injuries alleg
ed to have been sustained Au
gust 5. 1920 by James Frank
lin O'Brien when struck an
automobile Loeb was driving.
FIRPO AGREES TO
FIGHT GIBBONS.
..Paris, Dec. 31.—(By the
Associated Press.)—Luis Fir
po accepted terms tonight
from from the National Sport
ing Club for a fight with Tom
my Gibbons for a purse of
$60,000. The date of the
fight was not settled as Gib
bons has not yet signed, but it
will probably be in February.
ASKS TROOPS TO
OUST OFFICIAL.
Denver, Dec. 31.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Governor
W. F. Sweet today issued a
proclamation calling out the
national guard to remove W.
V. Roberts, civil service com
missioned from office.
BANDITS ROB
STATE BANK.
Kansas City, Dec. 31.—(By
the Associated Press.)—The
Kaw Valley state bank was
held up and robbed of more
thap $11,000 today by three
men.
YOUTHFUL ROBBERS
BUSY IN ALABAMA.
Mobile, Ala., Dec. 31.—
(By the Associated
Three youths less than 18
years^ old were charged with
two burglaries here early to
day, followed by the daring
hold-up of the manager of a
gasoline filling station and in
less than two hours after the
crime were under arrest
the police on charges of burg
lary and highway robbery.
WOODMEN LODGE, 370,
TO INSTALL OFFICERS
HERE THURSDAY
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The Woodmen of the
Camp No. 370 will hold a public
installation of officers
n ‘8ht at 7:30 o’clock in its hall
on North Hill street,
The Woman’s Circle No.
branch order of the Woodmen,
also hold a public installation
give an entertainment for the
Woodmen.
Chancellor S&uly reports a large
attendance is expected and
an evening of entertainment
promised.
Bill Bryan’s Skull Like That of
Neanderthal Man, Says Plant Wizard
Santa Rosa, Cal., Dec. 31.—Lu
ther Burbank, noted plaint pathol
ogist and scientist, in a/discussion
of "Science and Religion” at the
Federated church, criticised the
tivities of it Fundamentalists”
sgainst the theory of evolution.
Referring to “efforts being made
to prevent the teaching of scien
tific truths in the schools,” Mr.
Burbank said:
“Those who would legislate
against the teaching of evolution
should also legislate against grav
ity, electricity, and the unreason
able speed of light, and also
should introduce a clause to pre-
VOL. 53—No. 158
All Plants Running Practically
On Full Time, With One
On Extra Shifts.
The new year will find the cot
ton mills of Griffin running on full
time and the milt owners optimis
tic over the prospects for 1925.
This has been rather a hard
year on the textile plants, but
brighter times are believed to be
dawning, officials said.
The Georgia-Kincaid Mills, five
in number, with two bieacheries,
are running five days in the week.
The Kincaid Mil! at Experiment,
is running both night and day
shifts.
Optimistic
Superintendent Cheatham says
ho received a number of oilers
during the holidays and Hlat the
mills will run practically on full
time during the winter season. He
is very optimistic concerning the
future and believes 1925 will be a
much better year than 1924.
Secretary Daniel says the Rush
ton Mills are running on full tima
and has sufficient orders to keep
them going for an indefinite peri
od. He confidently expects a better
year in 1925.
Fall Time
Secretary Rogers says the Grif
fin Mills are also running on full
time. Some of the machinery is at
present idle, but it is expected
that it will be started soon. He is
very much encouraged to believe
business with the mills will be bet‘
ter next year.
The seven cotton mills in Griffin
give employment to about 2,250
operatives and have a weekly pay
roll of approximately $32,500.
( weatherforecast )
For Georgia—Unsettled, possibly
rain tonight and Thursday colder.
Temperature for 24 hours ending
at noon Wednesday.
Maximum 42
Minimum 40
Mean---- 43
Rainfall _ 1,52 inches
Market Reports
(Over Parsley, Slaton & Co.'i
Private Wire.)
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New Orleans Cotton
i i ! Trev
iOpei»;Highl Low ICl’setClose
iOpen High Low
Jan. 24.30 24.61 24.35
Mch. 24.40 24.60 24.43
May 24.88 24.72
July 124.71 24.73 24.75
New York Cotton
[Open)High] Prev
Low Cl’se [Close
Open High Low
Jan. 24.10 24.34 24.16#
Mch.\ 24.48 24.67 24.50
May * 24.84 24.98 24.84
July 24.93 25.11 24.97
Griffin Spot Cotton
Good middling 24.00
Strict Middling 23.76
Middling 23.50
vent the use of the telescope, the
microscope and the spectroscope or
j any other instrument of precision
which may in the future be invent
construced or used for the dis
covery of truth.”
Referring to William Jennings
Brysn, the speaker said:
“Mr. Bryan is an honored friend
of mine, yet this need not prevent
the observation that the skull with
which nature endowed him visibly
approaches the Neanderthal type.
Feeling and the use of gesticula
tion and words are more accord
ing to the nature of this type than
investigation and reflection.”