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est Griffin News
Miss Esther Harnric
I Correspondent.
Miss Lillian Mallory, of Thom
aston, has returned home after
spending several days with Miss
Etta Jones.
Mrs. Reeves and Mrs. Moseley,
of Macon, spent Sunday with Miss
Vesta Rhodes. *
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hand, of
Atlanta, spent Saturday and Sun
day with their father, Ben Hand.
The many friends of M. H.
Hambrick will be sorry to learn
of his serious illness at his home
on Lake avenue.
Mrs. Annie Bane, of Atlanta,
is visiting friends and relatives
in West Griffin.
All members of the W. M. U.
of Oaik Hill church are requested
to meet at the church immediate
ly after Sunday school on next
Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Mallory, of
Tbomaston, have been spending
several days with W. B. Watson
and family.
The many friends of little Miss
Ruth Jones will be delighted to
know that she is improving after
her recent attack of appendicitis.
The Sunbeams of Oak Hill
church will hold their regular
meeting at 2:30 o’clock on Thurs
day.
Mrs. J. F. Rhodes, who has
been seriously ill at her home for
sometime, was resting better
Tuesday. Her many friends trust
that she will soon be entirely
well.
Aubrey Westmoreland, of Bel
fontaine, Ohio, is spending several
days with his parents, Mr, and
Mrs. J. V. Westmoreland, at their
home on Lake avenue.
Roy Norton, of Atlanta, is vis
iting his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
John Norton, on Lake avenue.
The West Griffin correspondent
is very glad to be out again and
able to get up the news.
C. OF C. EXTENDS
r GREETINGS
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in the ranks of American cities.
An American City. What splen
did forces—latent and active—are
implied in that name.
* Let us miss no opportunity to
bring to our service the best
thought and experience of the
world, in city planning, city build
ing and city living.
Let us not only proclaim our
selves a conspicuous place among
our sister cities of the state and
nation, but let us deserve to be
arrayed with the most progressive
among them. Only by exempli
fying the truest and best in Amer
ican urban life, shall we make our
city worthy of being an integral
part of the greatest state of the
greatest nation the world has ever
aeen.
REIDSBORO MERCHANT
DIES SUDDENLY
John W. Cook, 50, died suddenly
at his home at Reidsboro, a small
station on the Southern Railroad
about 12 miles from Griffin, late
Tuesday afternoon.
Death is said to have been
caused by drinking an extract.
Mr. Cook was a merchant at
Reidsboro and a member of a
prominent family of Pike county.
survived by his son, John
W. Cook, Jr., and two sisters, Mrs.
John Allen and Miss Minnie Cook,
both of Reidsboro.
t Fueral services will be held to
S. Pittman, of Griffin, funeral di
morroW at Zezulon and burial will
be in the family plot there. Frank
rector, will have charge.
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Applications for Marriage Licenses
Luther Tinney, 20, and May
Cook, 18.
Marriage Licenses Issued
William J. Buffington and Selma
Hadden.
Howard Connell and. Myrtle Si
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monton.
Eugene Coggin and Willie Rob
inson.
Hugh E. Crowder and Sadit
Anderson.
D. P. Phoenix and Ruby Bivins.
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Notes
By Rev. B. L. Betts
The most Interesting and help
meeting of ministers ever at
by the writer was held in
prayer meeting room of the
Methodist church Tuesday
Nearly all the preach
braved the exceedingly bad
and attended.«
Outlining plans for the year
Dr. J. H. Eakes, the presid
elder, said he knew of no
being disgruntled and of
dissatisfied people in the dis
Rev. Charles C. Jarrell, D. D.,
the conference concern
thc work of the Golden Cross
informing us that Wes
Memorial Hospital will add
much money to the charity
as tlje people will raise. It
also brought to our attention
this great hospital give! the
courtesy, medical treatment
the very poor as it does to the
rich, who are able to pay
for treatment in this insti
Dr. Sterling P. Wiggins, con
missionary secretary, in a
speech, gave the minis
present reasons why they
preach on the subject of
Unless interest quick
and passion-for the world’s
is aroused, he told
our missionary operations in
lands must cease. Our mis
will be called home and
than 50 per cent of our
work wi\J be discontinued.
payment ol sntenary pledges
the confei ce benevolences
will carry on the work begun
several years ijga. Our
with the.....facts' ^ before .....them,.......can..
not fail to respond to the church’s
urgent call. -
Dr. Elam F. Dempsey, confer
ence secretary of education, was
at his best in presenting the
claims of the Christian education
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movement. He told us that it is
unknown whose child will lead the
nation in right paths, and for
'that reason every child is entitled
to intellectual equipment for life’s
battles. The colleges owned and
controlled by the church, he told
us, are producing more leaders
than the college under state man
agement.
Rev. A. M. Pierce, editor of the
Wesleyan Christian Advocate,
made a forceful and earnest ap
peal for more subscriptions to
the church paper. Only by read
ing religious literature can one
be informed on what iS taking
place in church circles.
Rev. John F. Yarbrough offered
a resolution, making February
Advocate month in the Griffin dis
trict. During February every
preacher will be expected to
preach upon the importance of
reading the scriptures and the
Wesleyan Advocate, and it is hop
ed several thousands of our peo
ple will subscribe to the church
paper.
Rev. M. A. Franklin, realizing
that suffering and want await our
mission preachers here in North
Georgia, as well as the superannu
ates and the other donferenee
claimants,, unless our jiiople rcy
spond immediately to thfe call for
payment of the benevolences./of
fered a resolution /o designate
January, February^/*- ..larch a:-;
a time for special effort to raise
the quotas of the several
His resolution was unanimously
adopted.
New Palindrome Found
New palindromes are rare, blit
western newspaper writer lias re
veuled several especially good ones.
A palindrome is merely a
that spells backward and forward,
A classic example of the palindrome
is the speech put into the mouth of
Napoleon: Able was I ere I saw
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was the following purporting to lie
sign which a store manager
placed over u rat-catching prepara
tion composed of Dutch cheese and
tar: “But trap made a la Edam,
part tar. • • Years ago when “red
root” was popular ns a cure-all, u
druggist’s sign ran: “Red root put
up to order.”
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
KING OF IRAK WANTS
TO BECOME A TAXI
DRIVER IN LONDON
London, Dec. 31.—Taxicab driv
\
who would like to become kings
will be interested in contemplating
King Feisal of Irak, who would
like to become a taxi driver.
Irak is a state in Mesopotamia
—said to be the site of the Garden
of Eden—over which the British
hold a mandate.
The King confided his humble
predilections to Tom Griffiths, la
bor whip in the Commons, who has
just returned from the Near East.
Driving a taxi in London, the
King ‘ thinks, would be ah ideal
way of earning a living and ranks
a plose second to the king business.
BRITISHERS WEAR
SPECS BECAUSE
OF OVEREATING
London, Dec. 31.—Overeating at
an early age is largely responsible
for the increasing number of be
spectacled people in Great Britain,
according to Clement Jefferey, eye
necialist.
[ Diet, he says, is an important
factor in determining the efficiency
of the eves, and the purer the
food consumed the niore normal
will the eye tissues become.
Overeating and undereating dis
turb the vision, while adulteration
0 f foo<L is a productive cause of
defective vision.
- When I was cycling through
England,” writes R. B. YV., “I
started off one morning to ride
from Clacton to St. Osyth. After
a while l bedtime uncertain about
the road and meeting a laborer 1
inquired, ‘Am I right for St. Osyth?’
The man looked puzzled and said
lie never b<*d heard of any such
place.
| “A second wayfarer whom I asked
was equally ignorant. Then came
a third. This fellow scratched his
iieitd. kill look -of com
prelierslon dawned upon his face.
‘Ay. to he sure. I have it now— it’s
Snosev ye mean!"'
Mrs. L. M. Oope, of Alamo, will
arrive in the city tomorrow to be
the guest of Mrs, J. M. Brisendine.
Twain's Description of
Missouri River Water
In one of ills return trips to the
state of his boyhood, Murk Twain
wrote a friend he had found one
thing that had not changed—the
mulatto complexion of Missouri
river water—und probably a score
of centuries would not change it.
“It comes out of the turbulent, bank
caving river,” be explained, “and
every thimbleful of it holds an acre
of land in solution. [ got this fact
from the bishop of the diocese. If
you will let your glass stand half
an hour you can separate the land
from the water as easy as Genesis,
and then you will find them both
good—the me to eat, the other to
drink. The land Is very nourish
ing, the water is thoroughly whole
some. The one appeases hunger,
the other, thirst. But the natives
do not take them separately, but
together, as nature mixed them.
When they f.nd an Inch of mud in
the bottom of the glass, they stir it
up und take a draft us they would
gruel. It is difficult for the stranger
to get used to tltis hatter, but once
used he will prefer it to water.”—
Pathfinder Magazine.
Opal Diggers Work Hard
for Small Remuneration
Of all the rough "outback”, jobs
in Australia, digging for opal is
about tiie worst. Coober Pedy lies
in the heart of the Stewart range,
170 miles from the nearest sta
tion on tl « East-West railway, and
its whole population ot between 70
and 80 diggers lives underground in
borrows Scratched out of the hill
side. A tin shanty, in which the'
diggers keep their tools, is the only
sign of life showing above ground.
Every morning the diggers come
out of their holes and set ou; for
the through opal the fields, to cut patijently
rock in tiie hoi e of
finding the beautiful black (them dia
monds lying beneath. Between
they have dug runny thousands of
ollars’ worth of opal in the] last
four years, though they 'have
worked only a small area of ai field
said to be 40 miles long. In nor
mal times opal but is worth abou^ $15
an ounce, now that there is
practically the diggers no demand have opal, for tiie but ^ems
no
money.
Almost Evened the Series
Mrs. Smith wanted to go to the
movies. Mr. Smith said he had put
In a hard day at the office and was
tired and would rather sit at home
and smoke. could Knowing have the Smiths,
anyone they predicted' that
would go to the movies!.
Let’s sit down near the front, M
said Mrs. Smith.
front,” But Mr. I don’t Smith like to p't nea^ the
protested. “When
I do that the pictures hurt! my
eyes.”
“Nonsense!” scoffed Mrs. Shilth.
.. I like to be down close so I can
watch the musicians.”
comfortable Soon the two seeing were distance seated i ithin the
orchestra'.
X Oh, don’t you just love to! hear
the nimble of the kettledrums?”
Mrs. Smith gushed.
And then the worm turned, albeit
ever so slightly.
Yes,” Mr. Smith replied, ‘Keep
quiet!”—Kansas City Star.
Surveying the Seas
Plans for the most complete sur
vey of the ocean ever attempted
have been inaugurated by a! con
ference representing scientific
branches of the allied United Stated gov
ernment and institutions.
One or more ships will be; fitted
out with a complete laboratory and
equipped with the latest scientific
apparatus for the first cruise. The
sea bottom will not only be mapped,
but the composition of the water,
its density, temperature, and cur
rents which affect the distribution
of marine plant and animal life, will
be studied at all depths.
Five-sevenths of the surface of
the earth is covered by water. This
water area can produce more food
tiian all the land can ever be made
to yield, and one of tiie purposes
of the expedition will be to 1 take an
inventory of such food possibilities.
Unharmed by Long Falls
Among tiie classic English falls
may be mentioned that of a steeple
jack, who fell from the top of the
church tOilhe-groirnd, of St. George in Bolton-Ie
Meors the whole dis
tance traversed being some 120 feet.
Tiie man’s skull struck some sheet
lead Upon the eartli and left its Im-
1 ot upon it. but though tills fall
was quite unbroken tiie man was
only slightly injured and resumed
work in a few days. Not !ong ago
a man his shoes on fell from
the top of a cliff at Dover, the
height of whiqli was afterward
found to be 4(H) feet. He was picked
up floating insensible in. some five
feet of water, but ills shoes were
off, which .proves that he must have
retained sufficient consciousness on
reaching the water to enable him to
draw his shoes from his feet.
And Blame the Clubs
Hardware Dealer—I’ve decided
to take up golf. Don’t you think It
would be a good advertisement If I
used the brand of clubs we sell?
; Clerk—No. While I was learning
I’d use the brand our rival dealer
sells.—Good Hardware.
Wednesday. Dec. 31. 1924.
Bathing by No Means
a Universal Custom
In Japan we would learn what
the Japanese Idea of cleanliness Is.
In this quaint country of beautiful
sunsets and colorful costumes peo
ple bathe twice daily. Anti there
Is no question that many of them
have no convenient bathroom us
we do. Ih China the family lias a
large stove which Is used for a bed
at night so they can l.eep warm.
Between this picturesque empire
and India, separated by miles and
miles of lonely country and ocean,
a great change of customs would
be seen. In these out-of-the-way
pluces we find people living in mere
hovels. They enjoy no running wa
ter systems and other conveniences
us the most segregated parts of our
country enjoy. "continu
In India, where plagues
ally cause the death of thousands
of families, you will find towns that
nave no water and sewerage sys
tems. You cun see the Indian wom
en balancing on their heads huge
jars which they have filled with
water drawn from the town well
or the sluggish and muddy river.
From Calcutta, to Bagdad, thence
to Constantinople, you will set' that
bathing is considered only for the
white man and the native aristoc
racy. On the deserts of Arabia,
where water is necessarily used
only for drinking, the desire to keep
clean is accomplished in a rather
“rough” manner. Instead of using
water for the hath the Aral) vig
orously rubs himself with the sand
of the desert.
Long and Short Lives
in Scheme of Nature
Qne of the most wonderful tilings
in Nature is tiie manner in which
things,are balanced up. The long
lived tilings propagate tlieir species
slowly; the short-lived, rapidly. For
instance, elephants, whales, tor
toises and carp have been credited
with lives of anything from four
hundred years downward. Aud at
the other end of the scale we find
insects which have a life of hours
only. Many theories have been put
forward to account for these re
markable distinctions, but the one
now most commonly accepted is
that the slower tiie creature is in
reaching full maturity and the less
its powers of reproduction, tiie
greater will be its average lon
gevity or length of natural life. Na
ture’s object in such an arrange
ment is fairly plain even to our
limited human intelligence. For if
such creatures ns locusts, breeding
with incredible rapidity, had them
selves a life of centuries, the world
would be within a little while Im
possible for other would existence. And
the same result occur did
an elephant with a life of perhaps
a couple of hundred years, breed
like a locust. In some way, which
as yet we may not fully understand,
the principle of Nature Is to main
tain a balance of power in our
world.
We wish you a Happy, J
Prosperous New Year.
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With the New Year resolve)
to cultivate habit*
Join Our Christmas Savings Club
Safety Boxes For Rent.
City National Bank u
OPERATIC STARS TO
GIVE RADIO PROGRAM
TOMORROW NIGHT
A real treat Is in store for raJio
fans in Griffin tomorrow night, ac
cording to J. M. Barrenger, of the
Varner Electric Company, when
broadcasting programs will be
given IV which the most famous
in
operatic and concert stars will be
heard.
Stations in 'New York City,
Washington, Boston, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg and Buffalo will be
“tied” together by the American
'elegraph and Telephone Company,
and for the first time will broad
cast a musical program furnished
by noted singers of both the Vic
tor Company and the Metropolitan
Grand Opera.
Mme. Lucrezia Bori and John
McCormick are the two outstand
ing features and will be assisted
by Amalita Galli-Curci, Jascha
Heifetz, Maria Jeritza, Giovann^
Martinelli, Tito Schipo, Mischa El
man, Feodor Chaliapin and Reinaid
Werrenrath.
J. M. Brisendine and Allen Bris
endine have returned to Orlando,
F!a., after spending the holidays
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Brisendine.
Joo Late to Classify
WANTED Several live wire
salesmen or ladies; for a quick
selling proposition. Call at 110 E.
Solomon between 10:00 a. m. and
12:00 a. m. Friday.
Have you joined our Christmas
Savings Club? Savings Bank of
Griffin.
STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Second Na- .
tional Bank will be held at 10
o’clock, a. m., Tuesday, January
13th, 1925, for the purpose of
electing officers and the transac
,
tion of such other business as
may properly come before them.
M. J. JANES, Cashier