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METHODISTS HOLD ANNIVERSARY TONIGHT
THE SPALDING HOSIERY
MILL MAKING EXTENSIVE
IMPROVEMENTS IN PLANT
The Spalding- Hosiery Mills an
making extensive lmprovem ::\t
in their plant on E. Slaton av
nue, with the addition of another
story over the dye house and
boarding room, doubling its ca
pacity.
The new story, a large and spa
cious room, will be used for finish
ing work. Here all work will be
inspected and boxed for shipment.
The finishing room is of daylight
construction, R cimc ,, . C , dSS , e irg .
used , on tu the north and a south o sides, . ,
whieh cuts out 85 per cent of the
glaring sun rays and 58 per cent
of heat rays. It is the only con
struction of the kind in the city,
said R. P. Shapard, in showing
the reporter “through tWay.
The addition of the new story
and improvements to the already
large plant will cost approximately
$5,000.
The Spalding Hosiery Mills is
one of the city’s most prosperous
industries, employing 175 opera- (
tives and having a payroll
about $2,000 per week. The mills
turn out 1,000 dozen pairs of in- \
fants’ sox daily. Mr. Shapard re-!
ports that he finds a steady de- j
mand for his product and that
business is good. 3
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ARE MEETING ALL
0EEEGA1ES HERE;
Chamber The Boy Scours met at the J
of Commerce at two
o’clock this afternoon and offered
their services to the Methodist
f"tertainment committee in meet
ivg all delegates to the conference
v/hich opens here tomorrow.
Under the direction of Scout
Master Douglas Burnette the
scouts will meet all trains and
be of any other assistance that is
possible in showing courtesy to
the visitors to Griffin.
The Boy Scouts are always
right there when their services
are needed and the entertainment
committee expressed grat appreci
ation of their act in meeting the
delegates and showing them to
their homes today.
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Rome, Ga„ Nov. 17. (AP)
Lumpkin Reed* 28, was burned to
death today when his clothes were
ignited by flames of an open
«rate.
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ATLANTA, fia., Nov. 17.—
(AP)—Forecast for Georgia:
Fair tonight and Wednesday;
heavy to killing fmst tonight.
GRIFFIN
AT GREAT
Griffin will be represented at
the International Livestock Ex-'
position in Chicago November 28
to December 5 by Douglas Wilson,
Leon Burnett, and Herbert Bolton,
Spalding county's xhampion stock
judsing ti art,
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With the closing of the entry
books in some of the departments
of the International V Stock Ex
position the management announ
ces that this great eduactional th
stitution ...... receiving . . stronger .
is sup
port from the country than ever
before. l h el orse Show and
carload classes yet to be heard
from the records show thht 2,045
cattle, 1,000 sheep, 1,045 swine
and 425 draft horses, have been
entered by jiear ly^^^^xhibitors.
DAILY NEWS
Presiding Bishop And Conference Hosts
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STATE PRISONS
WILL BE
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I Senator Wilkerson, with Repres
entatives Peterson and Humph
ries, members of a legislative
, committee making , . inspection . .
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of the State convict campg in
(Georgia counties, dropped
Griffin late Monday afternoon for
I an lns . P ec 10n 0 , , e „ P a ln
j they coun ty found camp. the It is understood here in
camp ex
! C ellent condition and highly
[ plimented Superintendent Randall
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an COUn y 0 lcla s on way
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TOTAL OF 1368
Eight more members we.po-efFfi
rolled in the American Red Cross'*
which with shrdluccEhov,.d?taal—
here yesterday, which with previ
QU3 CQntributions of $356) brought
the total to $368. The drive was
conducted by the American Leg
ion Auxiliary, with Mrs. Bart
let Searcy as chairman. Assisting
Mrs. Searcy were Mrs. Robert
Cumming, Mrs. Evander Shapard,
111, Mrs. Clark Williams, Mrs
Davis Williams and Mrs. George
Jones, Drake & Co., gave $5.00.
Following is a list of the mem
berships turned in by the auxil
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iary:
Mrs. D. 'R. Cumming,
Cleora Deane, Mrs. Ernest Travis,
Mr. Ernest Travis, Mrs. Clark
Williams, Mrs. Bartlett Searcy,
‘ and F. J. Denine.
The Boys’ Scouts will have
charge of the canvass for member
ships tomorrow.
MRS. LANSD01E
DID NOT
FALSE TESTIMONY
Washington, Nov. 17.
Mrs. Margaret Lausdowne told
the , Shenandoah court today
she had not used the expression,
< •false testimony,” in
• interview efforts
in a newspaper
which she said were made to guide
her testimony before the court,
She testified that Captain Foley
on a visit to her before she ap
peared in court the first time
argued with her against
that the Shenandoah flight was a
political flight and urged her
not to “make a long statement.
French Plans An
Expedition To
The North Pole
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jj, F rencb , navv y department rnicnL nlans pians
an »» expedition expeuiuon to lo the uie North .Norm r-oie
next spring and a subsequent air
plane flight from the pole to New
Wk City it was announced today.
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MOVEMENT ,
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Beirut, Syria, Nov. 17. (AP)
definite revolutionary move
ment apears to be developing from
the hitherto sporadic outbreaks
against the French. Druse leader
accuse the Trench authorities of
trying to forment a religious war.
STOCK
IN CHICAGO
four Canadian provinces from Tex
as to Connects at, and from
berta to Virginia, will contribute
these animals. Final' figures aie
expected to exceed 11,000 entries
in the live stock classes and 5,000
in the Grain and Hay Show,
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Secretary of Argiculture, W. M
Jardine, who is planning to attend
eom *bg' International,' recentl
stated: << The International Liv,
Stock Exposition with its twenty
three years of history, behind it
ig one of th e strongest institu
tions of |its kind in the world.
know of few places where th
farmer today can learn more and.
at the same time, contribute mor
the progress of farming a*
l* n wb * cb 't is being conducted, j !
with good treatment te the pri
soners and everything clean and
! sanitary, 1
j Reform in Methods j |
With reform in the methods
(used for punishing convicts in
Georgia prison camps as their
members of the Georgia
prison commission will meet in
Atlanta December 3, it is stated
iin advices from the offices of the
prison commission in . Atlanta. ... . ™ The
announcement . came close , upon the
heels u of publication of reports of
) , varlous members , of , a , ,
cornmisgion appoint , !d to inves
j gate conditions inthe pdson
! s of Georgia. On the report
- it was stated that certain con
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vict wardens of the State have
adopted “cruel and inhuman
forms cf punishment to take th
place of the lash.
One number of the legislator*
earned on the investigating com
mission declared that he had .lis
covered that convicts in one camr
were plated for hours in a box
whieh closely resembled f he st r’
of early colonial days. He stated
that the face of the convict wa*
exposed for hoars to the sunlight
Several of the county wardens am
a number of the-county cooitVtss
ioners and county physicians ar"
to meet with the commission in
devising certain rules ann eguln
tions governing T-. punishner
of convicts. V L. Stanley, secre
tary of the commission said.
Since the abolition of the use of
the lash in Georgia convict camp
during the administration f Gov
ernor Hardwich, r.Z p-luted or t
the only regulations on the statute
books have been of a prohibitory
nature. Mr. Stanley asserted that
the object now is to outline cer
tain regulations of a positive, ra
ther than negative, nature.
i ” r Stan Iey farther asserted
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that there is . no degree of regu
larity of p Unishnient in the var .
ious counties for insubordination
in the camps. Every county con
vict has its ^own methods of deal
ing with refractory prisoners,
J At present the prison commis
s'<m has no direct jurisdiction
( the prisoners, they
jover as are lo-
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Bishop U. V. W. Darlington
of West Virginia, who for the
third consecutive year will preside
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BISHOP DARLINGTON
MAKES STRONG TALK
TO EXCHANGE CLUB
Bishop TJ. V. W. Darlington
presiding bishop of the Nortl
Georgia conference of the South
em Methodist church, which open
jin Griffin Wednesday, was tV
principal speaker at the Ex
change club luncheon today. Bish
op Darlington spoke of the great
8° od that civic clubs could accom
pli s h in their communities.
The bishop urged the members
°f the Exchange dub to not over
Iook the opportunity for
their community and their fel
i ow man “Every member of
c ] ubj j s either helping the other
fellow or is harming him,” said
the bishop. “The best way to help
i your fellow club member is to
know him. Know his likes and dis
likes, know his problems and-help
Black Face Comedian
Takes The Stand At
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White Plains, N. Y. Nov. .
17.
(AP)—A1 Jolson, black faced com
edian, took the witness siand
at the triaI of Le 0nard
Rhinelanders annulment suit
gainst , ,. his wife, .. Alice Beatrice •
Rhinelander, . , . part negress, and de
nied . j that he had her at
everiseen
a bad ^ s mmer represented re *° rt . in ,‘ . n , 192 a no „ f Utter as , t
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t APT-f Princess Ghika, wife of
adjutant of Former King Fer
<linand of Bulgaria, was *burno
to death today while cleaning :
pair of gloves.
She wat using benzine and stood
rinse to a fir?, the gloves ignited,
With her hands and face am
beautiful hair aflame she ran, r
living torch, to her husband's
room, where a blanket was thrown
about her.
Aid was too late, however, and
she died in a few minutes, after
intense suffering.
Mrs. Ella Boole
Heads National
W. C. T. Union
Detriot, Mich., Nov. 17. (AP)—
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, of Brooklyn,
N s Y., former vice-president of
the National Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union and prominent
club woman and suffrage worker,
was*chosen president of the
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ing in Griffin tomorrow; with
I)r. J. H. Eakes, presiding elder
over the deliberations of tlie
of the Griffin district, joint host
to the conference, and Rev. John
F. Yarbrough, poster of the Grif
fin First Methodist church.
him. work them out. D
Th.ere is a relation between
civic clubs and the churches, of a
city that must not be forgotten, If
he said. If it were not for the
churches of your city, Griffin
would not be a good place in
which to live and you gentlemen
would not be here boosting your
home town.”
Bishop Darlington was intro
J duced by Dr. J. H. Eakes, pre
j trict. siding elder of the Griffin dis
Three new members of the Ex
club were introduced. They
were T. J. Bailey, local Dodgf
dealer; F. E. Arnali, assistant
cashier of the Merchants and
Planters Bank, and Joe Persons,
Jr., general manager of the Peo
ples Ice Company.
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„ Resuming . its .. session . today . , after ..
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.. hree d ft y recess . the .. court-mar
trying Colonel W.U.am
che11 heard tbe W1 tnes8eR
summoned by the defense i to sup
P«rt charges which the a,r
zander made against the war and
administration or aeronau
tics. Major Francis Willey, of he
general staff, and Major Allen
Quillion, of the j'udge advocate
general’s office, were detailed as j
assistant trial judge advocates •
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assist in cross-examination.
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Newark, Nov. 17. (AP)—Jer
s? y Justice lived up to its repu
tation for swiftness and severity
yesterday when Harrison W. Noel
20-year old ntclair youth, was
convicted o urder in the first
degree, with no recommendation
of mercy, after less than two
hours deliberation by a jury,
Under the verdict there is no
sentence possible other than death
in the electric chair. Noel will
he sentenced by Judge Edwin G.
Gaffrey, November 23.
Noel shot and killed Raymond
Pierce, negro taxi chauffeur last
September 3. Concealing the bod)*
Noel used the negro’s taxicab to
kidnap six year old Mary Daly, of
Montclair, from in front of he'
home. He killed he- by shooting
her twice in the head in a
section of Passaic County,
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Mrp. Jesse Gill was
LAYMEN ALSO TO MEET
TONIGHT PRIOR TO THE
CONFERENCE OPENING
Stirring Scenes In Griffin Today as Hun
dreds of Delegates Flock to City For
Opening of Annual Conference .
Dr. Thos. M. Elliott
Throughout the entire day hun
dreds of Methodist pastor and
leading laymen from every section
of the entire upper half cf the
state have been coming to Griffin,
attendants upon the annual ses
sion of the North Georgia Metho
dist conference, whirn fnmallj
j opens at 9 o’clock Wednesday
morning,
At the First Methodist church
The seat of the conference, bus)
scenes were enacted from early
morning, till a late hour at night
I Conference attendants were a
greeted upon arrival by Pastor
John F. Yarbrough and his Jargi
committee of efficient co-workers
and each member assigned to his
home fog'the week.
! Special 'onference conference Matters matters at
tended to today were of great im
portance and interest, although
preliminary in nature. Bishop tl
V. W. Darlington met with ths
cabinet of presiding elders at an
ealdy hour, and considered with
them the preachers’ appointments
for the coming year,
j graduate Committees ministers to examine under
and applicants
for admission on trial met their
J respective classes at the church,
and considered the courses of
study prescribed for undergrad
uate clergymen. The mission and
education boards also were in
'submitted meeting, formulating reports to be
to the conference later
in the week, and determining a
program of action for the coming
year,
Meetings Tonight
Important meetings are scht •
I a e or tonight at the First
Methodist church, which will con
stitute the first assembling of
the conference members for
session.
At 7:30 o’clock win occur the
anniversary meeting of the win
and Orphans Aid associa
tion, presided over by Rev A. J
Sears, of Lithonia. Dr. W. T.
presiding elder of the
South' Atlanta crcuit, is secretary
treasurer of the association, and
wU1 submit ‘ his re P° rt of the
body’s 3 activities during the year.
Another meeting tonight . will .... be
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a caucus of the , 96 „ laymen,,
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are members of .
body. / At ... the laymen’s , meeting
be held, when a
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* conference will be selec
When the conference later in
the week elects its 16 delegates
to the general cenference, which
meets next year, one-half the
number will be laymen. Sihce the
entire lay membership of this ses
sion is committed to opposition t'
the plan proposed for Methodist
unification, the laymen desire to
elect lay representatives who are
in complete accord with that pur
pose. The ticket to be nominated
4iy the loymen as determined up
on tonight, will , be u made . up of
leading laymen who are opposed
to the proposed plan. W’hen the
call is made later for the election
of lay delegates, their ticket wil
be elected on one ballot. There
wil be no carcus among the min
isters, and no ticket agreed upon.
Each clerical member it the con
ference will vote for whom h
personally desires te send to th
general law-making body. .
AW Association
The specific purpose of the Aid
association, which meets tonight
'* to perpetuate a brotherhon
among the preachers, so that whe
? ne o£ their number passes awa:
* n death the association gives re
lief to the family of the deceased
member at the time of urge:
need. Nearly all the preachers be
long to the association, as well as
■ great many laymen. Upon n
tice of a member’s .death, the sec
' retary sends out notices and each
member pays a mortuary fee o
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ESTABLISHED 1671
Presides Tonight
Rev. A. J. Sears
died, and the association has bee
instrument*! in bringing large
relief to each man’s famliy at a
time when help was needed.
Preachers who died during the
year were, Rev. E. M. Stanton, of
Ozona, Florida; Rev. J. T. Lowe,
of Rpme; Rev. L. W. Browder,
of Barnesville; Rev. J. P. Wolford,
of West Point; Rev. W. A. Wells,
of Atlanta; Rev. S. H. Dimon, of
Toccoa, and Rev. J. A. Sewell,
of Atlanta.
A, special memorial session of
the conference will be held next
Sunday afternoon in honor of the
ministers passing away this year.
Undergraduates* Examined
Twenty young men constitute
the class applying to the confer
ence for admission on trial. The
entire class appeared before the
committee on applicants today,
and underwent tests as to their
aI .... ‘ £l ' at,ons , and fitn *“ £or the
Methodist itinerant ministry.
At 9 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing Bishop U. V. W. Darlington
will call the conference to order
for the first da/Js deliberations
in the 59th annual session. Hie
program for the first day promi
ses to be a, very full and busy
one.
Immediately after the confer
ence is organized, some steps will
be taken to dispose of the unifi
cation vote. The probable course
of procedure wflTbe for a special
hour to be set for taking the vote,
and for the class of the secon.,
year to be admitted into full con
nection beforehand, so that they
may take part in the voting. No
debate on the question is expected,
and it is planned for the vote to
he a record vote. Each man’s
name will be called, and his vote
recorded according to his wishes.
It should be clearly understood
that the conference is not voting
on the question of unification,
per se; but only on the acceptance
or rejection of the plan of unfi
cation now submitted for consider
ation.
j There are many Methodists who
desire unification, but -who opose
the plan submitted.
Bishop Warren A. Candler, who
ioined this conference at the Grif
fin session 50 years ago, will
! preach at the afternoon hour each
day during the conference week.
The conference and public in gen
eral are invited to hear Bishop
Candler.
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NEW YORE COTTO*
Opm High Low Clom Pm
Jan. 19.54 19.D2 19.52 19.87 19.84
Mch. 19.31 19.56 19.30 19.55 18.42
May 19.12 19.35 19.05 10.32 19.23
Dec. 19.70 20.05 19.65 20.02 19.74
\FW OR1.KANS COTTON
Jan. 19.65 19.92 19.63 18.88 19.77
Mch. 19.80 20.07 19.77 20.02 19.90
May 19.50 19.78 19.50 19.73 19.60
Dec. 20.38 20.68 20.32 20.67 20.45
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