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GRIFFIN FIRST Invest your money, your talent, your time, your influence in Griffin. MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS ■ BOND X MEASURES NOT EXPECTED TO PAS: . K f ■,*> House Seeks Vote On Bond Bills B F J Walker Called on to Give List of Counties Pledged for Dis tribution of Funds. A / ATLANTA, Ga., March 8. (AP) -—Opponents of Governor Walker in the house today sought to force that body into an early con sideration of bonds for highway construction 1 and educational ex pansion. Representative Herman Milner, regarded all the leader of the op position, gave notice that tomor row he would subject a motion that the bond bills be reported out of the committee for debate. u There is no disposition or in tention on the part of our wing of the house to regard progress on any of the bond bills/’ said Mil ner. it Governor Walker has said that he wants those measures to come to a vote on the floor of the house and in that we agree with him. Therefore it is our intention to ex pedite them as much as possible. »> Asked For Proof Governor Walker was asked to day to furnish the house with a list of the 22 counties reported to have been pledged for the distribution of federal and State aid for the aid 1 of road funds. The governor is alleged to have sent telegrams to various boards of county commissioners stating that all federal aid funds for the next eight years had been plcdg- j ed bv the Highway Department to- 22 counties. Called Discrimination a Any such allotment in the manner alleged is a rank discrimi nation against all other counties in the State,” said resolutions in troduced in the house today by. Representative Wilhoit, of War ren. j Funeral Survev To I Be Made Shortly For the first time in this coun try a survey is to be made of the cost of funerals in the United States, according to an announce ment by the Metropolitan Life j Insurance Company, which appro-I printed $25,000 to defray the ex penses of the inquiry. | The survey will be made by a | commission composed of physicans, lawyers, clergymen, sanitoriums and social workers, and will seek to ascertain the costs entering in to the manufacture of coffins, the hire of funeral conveyances, the wages paid laborers in the under-, taking profession, and the costs and practices of embalming. I The investigation, the insur- • ance company says, is to bring about reforms, reduce the expen sees in the average family when * death occurs and to eliminate the . practice of “gouging” by indivi dual undertakers. j At the same time the company 11 make a study of the common cold in a specially designed labo ratory, and will inaugurate a 1 nation-wide campaign to immunu nize children against dintheria. I Cotton Rcnort V NEW ORLEANS COTTON ODen High Low Close Prev. Clo*' If eh. 18.36 18.46 18.27 18.33 18.50 May 17.90 17.96 17.76 17.93 18.01 July 17.40 17.44 17.27 17.43 17.52 Oct. 16.64 16.69 16.54 16.67 NEW YORK COTTON Mch. 19.17 19.22 19.02 19.20 19.27 Mav 18.60 18.66 18.46 18.63 18.72 July 18.00 18.07 17.85 18.02 18.12 Oct. 17.23 17.32 17.16 17.30 17.38 GRIFFIN SPOT COTTON Good Middling — 17.75 Strict Middling .. •/ 17,75 Middling — — » ......17.50 4 And She’s No Flapper, Either " ix ** i Ml n : X; s •Xv fiSUsssss m xx & : ,;X': / ■■ sm > § I x. y V. ifr* X :lx m -'x'x jj® mm } x: -• .x; mil £ >v. ’ ar-xraBKf. Mm .. m m , wf m mmm ■Sill m Aiin^ugn ohe was boin and brought up in Kansas, where her parents and grandparents were born, Mrs. Peggy Hull McKin ley, magazine and newspaper writer, is barred from remaining in thet country. Her marriage to Capt. John Kinley of the i lib JrLSH IN AND AROUND CITY Minor accidents in and around Griffin marred Sunday joy-riding for a number of automobilists. It was a beautiful springlike day following a terriffic wind and rdin storm Saturday night and many people were out to enjoy the pret t y weather, the highways being crowded with cars all day, but no serious accidents were report What was almost a serious ac cident occurred Saturday night when a car driven by J. B. Ivey, local banker, and an automobile in which Carl Martin and five others were riding collided in West Grif Mr. Ivey was traveling east on W. Taylor and the Martin par was going south on Twelfth. Mr. Ivey’s car struck the other car in the side. One man in the Martin ,. car , had , , his . wrist slightly ■ . hurt. . The front , . part of , T Ivey , s car was wrecked , , and , the . car was a ] so badly / damaged ‘ An ^ the dama da *« a ges was ‘ Accident on S Hill A car driven by R. W. and an automobile in which Miss Douglas Montgomery was return ing home from church were in a smash-up Sunday on South Hill street. Miss Montgomery was turn ing into the driveway of her home and t is said that the engine of her car went dead. Dascher was traveling north and in order to prevent running into the Mont gomery car swung sharply to the right. The two rear wheels of Daseher’s car were broken and a casing on the Montgomery car was damaged. An automobile in which Evans Parish, of Experiment, with a par ty of four, was riding plunged off the end of a fill at the Kincaid Mill Sunday, but no one was hurt and the car was only slighlty dam aged. Frank Guest ran a car that he was driving into the rear end of a tourist car at the intersection of Hill and Solomon streets Sunday afternoon. One of the front wheels of his car was broken, but the visitors’ car was not damaged. No one was hurt. Child Swallows Small Firecracker And Dies of ATHENS, Ga., March 8.— —Susie Collins, two year old child of Willie Collins, colored, died at her home here from phosphorous poison resulting from swallowing a firecracker known my a “Son-of-a-Gun.” The child was ill only eight hours. GRIFFIN, GA.. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1926. BRIAND SLATED TO HEAD NINTH CABINET TODAY PARIS, March 8. (AP)— The Political situation points to a ninth cabinet under ris tide Briand should he care to accept an offer believed to be > forthcoming from President Doumergue. | STATEWIDE DRIVEi ROME, Ga., March 8. 0 (Special) : i —With w ... Savannah 0 , and , Columbus „ , , in! . j a big contest , . for , , honors in . T Legion , j I 11Kembershl ,. P* Atlanta ... , completing] ,7. i a bl ^ campaign which it is their j laim wUI find them ahea d of both cities, and all other posts in the state girding up their loins for start, the state-wide member-. .ship campaign of the American Legion, Department of Georgia, got under way today and will run through Saturday. ( Goal 12 ’ 000 Tbe objective is 12,000 members moin . £ r ® e or £ a ;*SiV V/thTteek w “‘ , be achieved by the « nd - Georgia must reach its ob J®ctivc so that it can go to the National Convention in Philadel Pbia in October of this year with an impressive claim for the nat i ional convention for Atlanta in 1928 - 1 Tb e State department at Rome ann ounces that only members of tb a I.earion Auxiliary who were members 1926-1927 are ehgi ble for the trip to Paris for the national convention in 1927. Thursday March 11, has been designated as “legion , Day” in Georgia, and on that day the final dri ve for 12,000 membership objective . Will be made, Between e ’Kbt and nine o clock, a Legion P r °eram will be broadcasted from Atlanta Journal Station WSB. Oomm«'ndeT Watkins will deliver an address and music will be fur Snished by the Argonr.e band. Other (features are to be added to the J | program which will be announced throuKh the Atlanta Journal. Convention Advanced I The state convention in Albany has been put forward for a week, owing to a conflict with the nation al convention of the D. A. V.’s to be held in Atlanta during the week of June 21st. The new dates are June 17th and 18th. A big' time is being promised by the Albany Legionnaires. The State Commander and State U FOB DAMAGE Upon a petition filed by G. T Pursley, et al, owners of bonds ef the Spalding County Drainage Distinct No. 1, Judge W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., judge of the Griffin circuit,, on Saturday appointed P M. Cleveland receiver over all the powers heretofore conferred by law upon the commissioners of the district, and 1 it will be his duties, with nroner orders of court, to collect all assessments now due and those that are past due, and ell the future assessments, and nnv the funds so received to the holders of said bonds. This action seemed to be neces sary for the reason that the as sessments were not beincr oaid ns promptly as required, and the owners of the bonds were demand ing payment and . iy> funds were available to pay same. From now on it seems that act ion null be taken to force pay ment of all past due assessments and the prompt payment of all other assessments when they fall due. Every effort will be made to protect the bondholders from loss. Those who are now due the pay ment of assessments have been to make immediate pay ment to the receiver. 1 WASHINGTON, March 8. (AP) —Asserting that the shipping board with divide responsibilites had defied the president, Secre tary Hoover today urged that it be stripped of all powers except its judicial and regulatory func-, tions by the Fleet Corporation. Atlanta Ministers | j Will Confer Here I On Stewardship 1 A conference on stewardship win be held at the First Presby terian church tomorrow jrght at 7:30 o’clock. The speakers for the occasion wili-be Dr. William Hack, super intendent of home missions of the Atlanta Presbytery, and the Rev. j 1 j g. Patton Jr., pastor of the Prvor street Presbyterian church, Both of these men are said to , f orre f u i s n e akers and their visit here is being looked forward . t0 Rev" w,tn lnterest - Mr. Williamson urges all members of the church to be pre sent and extends a cordial invita ticn to the public. T. B. GILLIAM DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL •- Funeral services for T. B. Gill iam, who died at the Griffin Hos pital Friday night after a short illness, were held from MilneT Baptist church Monday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. Mr. Brown officia ted. Burial was in the church yard with Haisten Brothers in charge. He is survived by an only daughter, Mrs. Maggls Taylor, of Jockson, Miss. Haisten Brothers, funeral directors. CARTERSVTLLE, Ga., March 8. —With his father looking on un able to save him, Sam Sullivan, 18, was electrocuted here late Sat urday ni^ht when his body came in contact with a live wire which had blown down during a severe wind storm. Adibtant attended the meeting of the First District in Savannah on Friday of last week. They found Legionnaires in that section en thusiastic and out for membership honors, not only for Savannah, |bnt for the district. Controversy Over Amount of ‘Wolf’s’ Estate Continues CHICAGO, March 8. (AP) ^-Controversy 0 over whether John W . Worthington, “The Wolf of LaSalle Street," left an estate of three million dol lars or two hundred and fifty thousand continued today. * Alice Worthington, daughter of the confidence man who died Tuesday in the Atlanta federal prison, Maintained that the entire estate of tH^o hun dred and fifty thousand dol lars was left to her, but Rob ert L. Cohan, attorney, who represented Worthington when he returned to Chicago from Mexico last October, produced whet is purported to be a wi’l which left Cohan, he said, two hundred and fifty- thousand dollars. Cohan said the estate was much larger. DENTAL ID EYE LOCAL SCHOOLS A voluntary agreement has re cently been made between local dentists and school authorities for dental and eye clinics in the Grif fin schools, it was announced to day by Superintendent Marvin Lester. Several prominent citi zens have been instrumental in bringing this agreement about, it is stated. Many Defects The first examination of the Sam Bailey School show that from 75 to 80 per cent of the school have dental defects, many °f which are sufficiently serious t° affect their health, it is an nouneed. Preliminary examinations are expected to be completed in about two weeks. The first examinations are being confined to the third throup-h the seventh grades, and later may extend further. Efforts will be made to have all the de fects in the children removed be fore the end of the school term. In order to stimulate interest | m removing defects, a holiday is being offered each grade as soon it shall have removed all de f e ct s in each pupil. The idea of the examinations is really to call attention to manv parents the urgent need of dental attention, it is announced. _ FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. MOTE -- Funeral services for Mrs. Ma halie E. Mote, widow of the late w - J - Mote, and cne of the oldest residents of Spalding county who at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fannie Westmoreland, at 927 W. Poplar street Friday night, were held from Damascus Christ ian church near Pomona Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, where a large number of sorrowing friends and relatives gathered and paid their tribute of love and respect to her. ] Rev. Mr. Hinton conducted the services, assisted by Rev. O. K. Cull. Burial was in tbT> Wostmore land cemetery with Haisten Bro thers in charge. The following gentlemen acted as pall Merrers J. S. Dye, D. F. Patter «n, J. A. Scott, C. E. Wiley Mliam, and Robert Gilbert. ROMANS ATTENDING . DALLAS CONVENTION ROME, Ga., March 8.—William F - Barron and Frank S. Barron a re attending the annual conven t' 0T1 °f the Southern Coca Cola Bottlers , association in Dallas, Texas, this week. , THE WEATHER ATLANTA, Ga.. Mar^h 8.— (AP)—Forecast for Georgia: Fair and slightly cooler to night with heavy to killing frost. Tuesday, fair with mod erate west winds. I GEORGIA ASSEMBLY IN 1 WRANGLE OVER WALKER PROGRAM, SAYS MADDOX A special program has been arranged for the regular Tuesday meeting of the Exchange Club, that will be one of the best ever held in Griffin, according to an nouncement made by W. H. Beck, Jr.. secretary of the club. Sid Phillips, secretary of the Macon __ Exchange club, said to be the man who is responsible for the forming of four new clubs near his city, will be present to tell of the big state convention to he held next week in MaAn. Dr. Gifford Gordon, noted Aus tralian will be the principal speak* er of the meeting. He will deliver an address on “Australia the dent, of America." Dr. Gordon will be introduced to the club by Mrs. L. C. Warren, prominent Grif fin club woman. In addition to his address to The Exchange Club Dr. Gordon will address the students of the High School Tuesday morning and a mass meeting of citizens at The Baptist Church Wednesday alight. Griffin Loses To Washington Hard Fought Contest The Griffin girls lost a hard j fought basketball game Saturday ftemoon .. to . the » Wash.ngton ,, , Sem.- „ , nary girls by a 14-7 score. The game was played at the seminary court and a large number from Griffm attended. The two teams appeared very evenly matched and Washington Seminary won owhfcourt by virture of play ing on her in familiar surroundings. Previously the Grif fin g’ris had won a game from the Atlanta lassies by a 29-2 score'. This will probably be the last game that the girls will play this year. Under the capable coaching of Miss FI or re Joe Everett and' with Maeola Byrd, brilliant for- ' ward, to lead them they have had a successful season, and Griffin has had occasion to be very proud of them and their never failing hard playing, clean sportsmanship, and good spirit. Tov 1 E/AClIIUlIUU Pvpmnfinn FJpptiniK flflllpH V^ailLU FORSYTH, Ga., March 8.—Elec tions have been called both for the county of Monroe and the city of ’’orsyth for the purpose of submit ting to the voters the question of exempting new industries from taxation for a period of five years, The elections will be held Sat urday, March 27 both for Forsyth and the county and the methods ( will be the in holding j j same as elections for members of the gen eralj assembly. Similar elections have been held in neighboring | ounties and the that i prospects are ^ the result will be the same in this county. Miss Bessie Lovem, of Hampton, was shopping in the city Satur j day afternoon, a j ; CAST BALLOT ON PROHIBITION The *Griffin Daily News’ vote on prohibition begins today* t Seven hundred newspapers in the United Sta’ea will . take part in this test vote. The News is a mrmbsr of the newsppaper service which is conducting the cunwgn. Turn to page three of today’s News ahd you will find a prohibition ballot. , Write how you stand on the “dry question” which is ; agitating the- whole country, and mail the same to the Prohibition Editor of The News. Help us show the nation how you stand about prohibi tion, whether you favor the prohibition v it now stands with strict enforcement, repeal of the statute, or modification of the law. - _ yl Vote now and mail in your ballot. i. Invest yonr money, taleift, yonr time, ESTABUSHED 18 Senator Arthur K. Maddox, of the Twenty-sixth district, who spent the week at home with rela tives, stated on his return to the capital this morning that there was grave doubt that Governor Walker’s program for State bonds for highway construction and edu cational expansion would be put through at the present extra ses sion of the assembly of Georgia. All of the smaller colleges in the State are clamoring for ap propriations and declaring they will not support the educational bill unless they are remembered,” said the senator, “and it is well known that even the advocates of the educational expansion measure are hopelessly divided among themselves, which in all probabil* ity will prevent this measure be ing adopted. *» 4< There is' also great diversity of opinion on the road bond measure . antl H looks Iike nothing will be (1nne at the cxtra session except the enactment into law with the governor’s signature of the bill P assed Iast week for the payment of Confederate pensions,” said Mr. Maddox. WINE AND BEER WASHINGTON, March 8. (AP) —Confident that the government will obtain an upperhand on the sources of bootleg liquor, Assistant Secretary Andrews, in charge «f prohibition enforcement, today be -gan mapping a campaign against and beer throu h the estab . lifibmi , nt , motor Bqnad ^ve particular atte ntion to that an nounc< ^ , a8t week aimed at chcck . illicit diversion of industrial al alcohol through the sep^fte ment of thp enforcement squad and the creation of a tax on gen eral beverages by the new reve m)e ai?entat and with thii! as a board ^ divided repreaenta tives • ■ - he can control the future Supplies of beer. x fTTV '-A*» PfllTPT Will YT '11 4 * * . W \f 1 p 1<L/ F T * TUESDAY 1 VJUW X X The city Court of Griffin, which was in session several days last week for the trial of criminal cases, will reconvene tomorrow morning at 8:30 o’clock for the purpose of taking up the civil docket. There are only a few cases on the civil docket and it was an nounced by court officials today that court would probably be in session for only one day. Miss Louise Mathews, of La Plata, Maryland, is the attractive guest of Mrs. David J. Bailey and Mrs. Robert Gumming. Miss Ma thews, who was a school mate of I Mrs. Cummlng at Gunston Hall, Washington, D. C., has been a frequent admired visitor in this * „ city. She is returning from lulu, where she snent several months with her brother, Captain, Fred Mathews. J. G. Bedenbaugh is greatly im proved after being confined to his bed for several davs with an at tack of acute appendicitis.