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GRIFFIN FIRST
blTMt your money, your
talent, jronr time, yw
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GRIFFIN ROTARY CLUB
It was announced at the meet
ing of the Griffin Rotary Club
yesterday - that plana are being
made for the staging of a minis
trel show at an early data for
the benefit of the Griffin Hospi
tal, institution, GTiffin’a greatest jeljaritable hindered
is being
greately in its work on account
of the lack of sufficient funds.
This proposition has been in the
minds of the members of the club
for some time and the plans for
the entertainment have advanced
far enough to assure that it will
he held. The show will in all prob
ability be “put on the first
Thurday night in December, it
was announced.
Rotarians „ to Sell Tickets
The members of th# Rotary
Club each pledged themselves to
take ten tickets and sell them.
“This assures a $500 house,” said
said President Griffin, “and the
sale of tickets by others will
mean an S800 audience,” he ddded.
“If it should be found that
eomodations can not be given
those desiring to attend the
performance a second
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Mr. Griffin.
Fond* Will Be Aeee*ibi«
Chairman Nich.te, of ,n.
Urv theT'action Vs ne grS:
tude at taken by the
wlub and said whatever funds
were realized from the
Committees' have' already
apeinted- by the club and plans
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“A few raqra homes are needed
to take car4 of the Methoqist
delegates next week,” said Rev.
John F. Yarbrough, pastor of the
First Methodist church and hosA
to the convention, this morning.
While accomodations have been
made fo* all the delegates ex
pected, it is said that in some few
instances parties who agreed to
take delegates have found for
various reasons they will be un
able to do so, and so more homes
are still needed.
Mr. Yarbrough "requests those
•vho can take delegates Sn their
homes, those who can furnish beds
•and let the conference furnish the
meal tickets and those can take ,
boarders in their . , homes, to , notify ...
either himself nr M. J. Daniel,
chairman of the entertainment
committee.
AH plana for the conference
•are aobut completed and Griffin
will be ready for the 500 or more
WILL SIGN AGREEMENT
TOMORROW IN ITALY’S
DEBT FUNDING TO U. S. *
Washington, D. C., Nov. 13.—
(AP)—The American and Italian
debt commission tomorrow Will
sign an agreement for the fund‘
ing of Italy’s debt to the United
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The terms of the funding ar
rangement were agreed upon aft
er ten days of negotiation and ac
cepted by the Italian commission
7f of L the "ISlem problem, n 3idin providing , n for t,n S the t
usual 62 year, authorization per
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Interest Added
The amount agreed upon by the
two commissions for settlement
was $2,042,000,000. This represents
^i« al i , ndebt * dn€8S ° f %lr
he titlah uttS.r settlement, it and at
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GEORGIA ALUMNI
CLUB IN GRIFFIN
An enthusiastic group of Uni
versity of Georgia Altimni Thurs
ay night formed the (]£&rgia
Alumni Club of Griffin. The or
ganization was perfected after a
banquet held at the Blue Goose
Cafe. Arthur K. Maddox was elec
ted president, W. T. Bennett vice
president, William H. Beck, Jr.
secretary, D. R Cumming ftreas
urer and. Henry Me Wiliams seg
| geaht-at-arms. The banquet held in honor
| of “University was Day” which
was
all over the scate and in
other states.
Hear Chancellor
| i After the banqueti “rx' thcse pr es
th ;
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B
beard by tha
GeoSs Snelling urged al
to work for the bet
t cr soport of the stete educational
^univ^it^Tt told £. 5
state of Georgia is woefuOr lack
that after they complete the! -
education there, thev remain and
I so are a complete' loss to the
State of Georgia.
Favor Bond Issue
The Alumni Club voted to hold
[ regular quarterly meetings and
jto 'the make Georgia-Tech the Alumni meeting for
| game an an,
naula affair. Resolutions were
passed favoring a State bond is
sue for $15,000,000 for education.
Copies of the resolution were or
dered sent to the State Alumni
and to the governor of the State.
Resolutions were also adopted ap
proving the plans for the build
sing of an athletic stadium at the
University of Georgia.
Those attending the alumn’
meeting and banquet were J. G.
Woodruff, K. A. Barfield. W. H.
Beck, Jr., W. T. Bennett, P. M.
Cleveland, D. R. Cumming, Ware
Hutcheson, Henry McWiliams, S.
B. Wallace, J. H. West, Robert
i.... M. Wheaton, , A. . K. ^ Maddox, ,, ., D. _ B. _
ibearcy <, and , J, T n O. r- Futral. * i
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(delegates to the conference, who
■ are expected to begin arriving next
Tuesday afternoon. The confernce
will convene at 9 o'clock Wednes
I day morning, with Bishop Darling
ton presiding.
three per cent, the same rate, as
was accorded Belgium in the set
tlement of her post-armistice ob
ligations, to June 15, 1925.
For the first live years of the
(•--year period, Italy will be r e
quired to pay only $5,000,00(1 a
year. Payments will reach
000 in the last year.
After the first five years,
intere3t ratc is fixed at
i , for
one per cent ten years, and
Ur [that will increase for successive
1 periods fo.nr^rU, of «.
per cent, one-half of one per
one per cent, and during the
seven years, to two per cent.
Under this arrangement, for the
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of $2.46^00,000.
GRIFFIN. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1925.
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IN RED
Many Griffinites Enrolling
Canvassers Call on Them in
Annual Drive.
The drive for memberships in
the American Red Cross
i continues with great success.
Chairman George E. Zachary is
much pleased with the progress
that is being- made and all the
offices appreciate the liberal re
spohse that the workers are meet
ing with.
On Wednesday the campaign was
conducted by the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy. In ad
dition to the list of names they
turned jri publication yester
day should ineluded the names
of Judge J./’A. Drewry, Mrs. J. A.
Drewry, L. J. Gaissert, Mrs. L. J.
Gaissert and Depot Jewelry Store.
Thursday the canvass was made
by the Woman’s Club committee
composed of Mrs. P. Y. Luther,
chairman; Miss Edna Thorn ton,
Mrs. H. W. Prothro, Mrs. W. H.
Cox, Mrs. Frank Smith, Misses
Virginia Boyd, Emily Hallybur
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hy the Woman’s Club committee,
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«- W. Edward,, Cha, Phillip,,
, rn 0n e 0n W^Pr"^
®* C piowd en, H.
Thor P e - R- S. Williams, J.
W ‘ McWilliams, Miss Ruth Tra
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Reese ’ Anderson, S. W.
^ ^ ” J )rewr i r ’, Fran i'^° r '
*?”> Fau ' F) * nt ’ Walter Bolton,
T ‘ Pa t teMon - J « hn McNulty,
Mrs - v Nevrman, T Mrs. Jammer
9 °^. Mi “ ®? BnC S e Bai1 ^
1 Ml 33 Myrtice Bailey, ., M. J. T Dan- „
>®* . , J T r> 'G.C. Martin, Homer Conn,
Gossett, ? rS- J* Mrs. W Albert *™’ Nichols. , Alec
** r ^ cout8 to ^ or k
Tomorrow the canvass for
berships will be conducted by the
Girl Scouts.. ' *
Colored Folks Helping
G re<1 th° P,e ^ d °f nR
eir eir “hit” hit in the campaign
memberships and their enorts
are greatly appreciated by the of
ficers of the Red Cross organiza
tion here. The Springhill school
children and the Springhill
ers sent in contributions yester
day, as did the Woman’s Improve
ment Club. C. L. D. Nimons, iF
principal of the school and presi
dent of the club.
JcicilSOn Seeking
Stock Pond With
Fine IL Game KitlliltZ r
Jackson, Ga., Nov. 1: At a
mefting of the director; fthe
Kiwanis club this week Major G
F.. JIallett was viamed as
chairman .of a committ. to c’-ke
up with Senator W. J. Harris, ih,
matter _f securing from ih ,'OY
ernnient trout^and “50 000 each r f s ».,el t'
noae bream t« stock
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! The governin'.lit, it i< u:iri ■ •
stood, will furnish these fish f< ■
its hatchery, without cost to th
citizens of the county.
Tf the fish are secured, with!
, a few years, .some of the I.
. fishing in thc country may be ha
in this big reservoir.
Major Mallet is of the opinion
.that the law passed the past sum
m<,r Prohibiting seining for a per
lod ycar4 ’ have a ^
eided , effect f in stocking the
streams of thp stat . with eame
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GRIFFIN LADY FALLS
AND BREAKS HER
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Mrs. Ben Futral, 431 N. 5tV
her "™- Her m,ny ,riend *
to learn of this accident.
IT'S FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH;
BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP
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FOR RESULT BIG GAME
The Griffin News will receive thc account of the Georrji !•
~f ec h game tomorrow play by play. The regular edition of
the papcr wiil not carry thc account of the game as it probably
"f ^ » ,t " 5 •’*>*■ - ot w * n ' ,o
delay delivery of the regular 1 edition.
. However The New* will i**ue *n extra immediately alter the
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not get an «tra. ^<> The News ** will ^ report toWn the scorg, over th«
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telephone. So call 210 at any time after 5 o d Q <* W* will
| gladly tell you whether the Yellow Jacket HWR Dog
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WILL ,,IUt BE BURIED M
HERE
Funeral service, f.r Mrs, L.ure
C.rb,n „ _ Perter, , former , . ,
! Griffin woman, who died
day afternoon at 2:15 o'clock,
in Houston, Tex., will be hel«
ice Saturday j afternoon re. from . the „ 2:17
train. The Rev. Dr. Malcolm R.
McKny - of Atlanta - wiU
J ^ Rev . Malcolm R
|" illiamson, of Griffin, and inter
ment will be in Oak Hill cemetery ,
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; wit The ^ F - pall-bearers, s - Pittman in all charge.^ life Tong
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,friends of the family of the de
j ceased, will be J. Woods Ham
mond, J. Robert Berry, Frank Sor
' >'el, Charles Murray, C. H.
brook, B. R. Blakely, J. P.
sons, and E. S. McDowell.
Mrs. Porter was born in Griffin
j n Jg 50 a!U ] was-the daughter
the late James W. and Julia 31
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■ Corbin - sh(! * penl hor >rirlhood '
' anc | received her
jtion at the Presbyterian
Female College here. In January
1 R 75 , she was married to
K. Porter, also of Griffin. They
their home heTc for somi
‘
^me and then moved to Houston '
) where-her , , , husoano , oceanic one
,nnst promimn. u?imss m.n
ii Aewill^S
J eat by his 8i<k at 0nk 11,11 oc>nie *
tery.
Mrs. Porter was a woman °
womicrfpl (Christian cnaratenstie
and was greatly beloved h/ a 1
those who se*>w her. Sh- had been
a devoted member of thc
terian church all her life and was
a force of good among her large
circle of friends,
She is survived by t^vo sisters,
Miss Mary S. Corbin and Miss
^ att ^ Gorbm, of Griffin; three
f J^ S ^ " e £ t * P^’ a " d
dn M OTrS- " J ' r ,lero > of OI El 1 ast0 >
Tex; , nieces, Miss
three
Corbin, of Atlanta. Mrs. H.
".rt, n, Glrndalr Cri.. «ri
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The death sentence imposed unon
l s.' co Tr - r -- m -
|C. Wright, aged superintendent oi
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Mflt BALANCE
BE MAILED SOON
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‘ the balance due Confederate pen
I™* , at W ear ‘ y datC ’ aCC0TdmK
X R- Gumming, ordinary, ^fro^John from John
(W sioner. . Clark, State pension
It is likely that the checks will
be The an*
nouncement said the money
available after November 10.
Judge Cumming says he wil make
definite 1 announcement in fhe New.i
just . . the , checks ,
as soon as
receive
The $35 payment will he made
out of the funds arising from the
eigar and cigarette tax. It will
lie remembered that pensioners
have been paid $100 this year
and with the $35 installment to
be made soon will leave a balance
due of $65 for this year’s tote
of $200 due each Confederate pen
sioner in this State.
The pensioners, of course, will
be glad to receive thc checks and
it will help the old men and wo
men wonderfully.
| No recent installment has been
made as to the progress reported
dispo?inp of the , cr i p auth or’
ze d by the recent assembly to
the paywnt " ln
* The $35 payment to be
j pensioners here will reach a total
i of some $3,500. There are about
j county 100 living according pensioners to in thc Spalding late*
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roll prcpar<4 by_ Judge Cumming
Fails To Throw
Out Testimony Of
j Mrs. Landsdowne
j WagWn|fton> Nov 13 (XP) _
.The prosecution in the Mitchell
C0Urtmartial failed ^ in an «^
f ort r J- ; to 0 throw "venyesterdlvbrM^ out of the ™m-t #»,,
te3 t 0 .
' c °u™el the court overruled the
(prosecution’s evidence objection that the
given by the widow of
the Shenandoah ’ s commander was
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was
today by the sup reme
court. '
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BRITISH SUB LOCATED; Ji?
CHANCES ARE 6* OF THE
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CREW ARE STILL ALIVE
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DELEGATES 10
K OF P. MEET
Griffin was represented at the
district meeting of the Knights of
Pythias in Barnesville yesterday
by John T. Waldrop and John L.
Reid.
The local representatives repof
that, five lodges had
at the meeting. Th condi
of all the lodges were re.
ported in excellent financial con
dition.
Resolutions were passcu asking
various lodges to take active
interest in Stone Mountain Mem
orial coin sales. Thc lodges were
civic a } a ? affairs. ^ to take P art in . a11
Thc meeting was presidcd over
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Chancellor M. G, Moore,
Atlanta, delivered an addnaa
ZJ3LS.
Griffin wa, fleeted as the next
. meeting plqce
for the distriev
convention. It wf.s be held In
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! The City Court of Griffin
convene on Tuesday, December
in regular session. A list of
jurors drawn to serve at
term follows: “
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’ z" \“ tra1, R - Smarr
w W . (Bill*
McLeroy, R. O, Maddox,
: W. F. Maliaer, Savage GalhariT,
M ^ alker ’ B ' D - Sp™*'
Jer, W. S. o Futral, W. T. Scott,
H. Walker. Jr., J. R. Thomas,
iW w.'a. B Mathews
Flemister, J. P. Turner,
J. D . Kilgore, W. G. Cartledge,
Jesse L. Vaughn, J. E. Wheaton’, Drewry,
Arthur Digby, W. H.
j r „ J. y. Brown,
i D. G. Sultins, J. Payne,
: A. G
L . English, E. N. Whitmire, G. *9
Pursley, C. H. Latta, R. L. Duke,
(city), T. M, Wies.
p. Mayner-I. P E. Arnall. W. 4.
; j. E . Maynard, R. Ft. Mann, .1
May, J. H .Newman, M. E. Mote
B. Slade, W. P. Burke, Ezra Gocn.
j, B. Tyus.
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i EDUCATIONAL WINDOWS
j IN THE GRIFFIN STORES
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ywterday went on record as high
commending Superintendent
Lester, his able corps of teachers,
pupils and different women’s
ganizations for the window
Plays in Griffin stores this week
on the occasion of education week
• 4 These displays reflect great
credit^ upon the schools and the
different organizations of the
city,” saNh Mr. Hammond iif pre
senting his motion, which was tin*
anTmously passed.
a Two Griffin ladies, Mrs. J. P.
Mason and Miss Mae Whitlow, are
largely responsible for the credi
table exhibition of the Rotary
Club and the Exchange Club,"
said Mr. Lester, who expressed
appreciation at the action of the
club in remembering the work oi
the schools and the differ; n
organizations in the cause c# •
education. '
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Those window displays showing
The aims and purposes of the or
j ganizations W* here include the Wo
Club, the Hawkes’ Free
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Plymouth, Eng., Nov. 13. (AP)
—Submarine M-l was located to
day on the bed of the sea 12 miles
southwest of the start point at
! Devonshire. im
There is a slight chance that
the members of the crew of 68
are still alive. r
M-l, which disappeared dor*
ing the maneuvers in the channel m
is said to b; lying at too great
a depth to permit diving opera*
tions or attempts to bring her to
the surface.
j Naval ships have reported tn*t
had not suffered from any
collision and for thfs reason itis
^ thought the men aboard may «t!H
I be alive. If they are, experts say
they face a terrible lingering death,
as the boat is too great a size
and lying in too deep water to
permit raising her. ‘ -■ /
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EXERCISES FOR
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Interesting exercises in
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'Brook* and Miss Mary Vtrr
i wiiaon.
t Different phases of school
Jon .were represented by the stttden
jing the atage in coatumes,
athletics, Dramatic Club, Mk
and Glee dct, A
j Dcmostheniak 'j** LitOfary Societies
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The Boys Glee Club-' ttH
fflrf. M.ndriin Onb re
Igiuch number of prog^n selections, t
tp the Skr'Ji!
OoUhtg Program *
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The undTLT^as doting Program of
week .,7 of ■
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spST afternoon at' three ' o’clock. A
program ha*
ranged for this meeting. *
There has been much interest
ift education week and all, the
programs this week have been ex
cellent. Superintendent Lester
and all haveing a part in them t7r de
served to be Highly commended
good work that has been aocom
.plisbed I for the cause of education,
‘ Mrs. fr. A. Smith, of Zebulon,
was Shopping here Friday.
Children’s Library, The Exchange
American the Woman’s ^uxthary
Legion, the Georgia Ex
periment Station, the Griffin High
th ^ t,c ^ t
partment . . and the I^imary De
P artmen t.
I Cotton R eport j
nbw tone curuift .
Open High Low Cfeat
Jen. 19.53 19.70 19.33 19.61 1
Mdh. 19.30 19 A3 19.11 19.8* 1 ■
May 19.06 19.3© 19.18 19.16 I
Pec. 19.59 19.80 19.45 19.73 19^0 H
MBW OSUtANS COTTON ?
Jan. 19.75 19.90 19Ji3 19.74 19.76
Mch. 19.85 20.00 19.70 19 l81 tm
May 19.52 19.74 19.45 19,60
Dec. 20.28 20.4 8 20JL5 20.36
GRIFFIN W *.
Good MlddHAg 19.50
Strict Middling i
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