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GRIFFIN FIRST Invest your money, your talent, your time, your influence in Griffin. assuciaied press SUBCOMMITTEE DRAFTS SUBSTITUTE ROAD BOND BILL FOR $70,000,000 ATLANTA, Ga., March 9.— Draft of a proopsed committee substitute for all road bond issue measures introduced in the special session of the state legislature was completed last night by the subcommittee of the house consti tutional amendments committee. The substitute provides that the state may issue bonds for paving highways * not to exceed $70,000,000. It does not involve . , any change . in . taxation methods to provide reve nue for retiring bonds or maintain ing interest payments. The bill drafted is very brief, carrying only three or fO|Ur funda mental provisions, and will be re ferred by Representative Mann, under instructions of the commit / tee, to some well-known lawyer who makes a specialty of passing upon the legality-of bond issues. This will be done in order that before the bill goes to the main committee for approval it may be known that there is nothing in it which wou’d mitigate against sale of the proposed bonds at the cheapest possible price to the state. The bill ns finally adopted by the subcommittee leaves practical ly all Questions on which there has been any difference of opinion to the enabling bill which it also is .proposed to pass. It was the sense of the committee that the proposi tion in rega-d to amending the constitution to allow this issue of bonds should be suomited to the people for ratification next No vember in the simplest possible form. News was received in Griffin Tuesday morning by Mrs. Seneca Sawtell of the death of her sis ter-in-law, Mrs. Mary Frates Red ding, wife of Arthur Redding, of Atlanta, which oceured night at 9:1-5 o’clock at a private sanitarium in Atlanta. Mrs. Redding, who was 42 years of age, had been ill for several weeks. She recently underwent an operation and later contracted pneumonia, which caused her death. She has many friends in Griffin, her husband’s former home, where she has spent much time. She was beloved by all who knew her and will be greatly missed by many friends in Grif fin. Mrs. Redding’s daughter, Mrs. Herbert Horne, of Rio de Janiero, arrived last week to be at her bed .. side and her son, Robert Frates 4 Eeddinjg, is to arrive in Atlanta '• ' tonight* from Rio de Janiero, hav ing missed the last boat. Mrs. Redding, the daughter of Portuguese parents, was bom in San Francisco, received her tion in the states, and later went with her parents to South ica. There she met Mr. Redding, American representative of a busi ness,- and they were married No vember 22, 1898 at Manaos, Am azonas, Brazil. They lived for a time in Rio but have lately been living in Atlanta. She is survived by her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Herbert Horae, of Rio de Janiero; one son, Rob ert Frates Redding, of Rio; a grand daughter, Isabel Redding Horne,; one sister, Mrs. Eva Du snrfce, of Atlanta; one brother, August Frates, of San Francisco; two brothers-in-law, Robert Red din. of Atlanta, and Henry George Redding, of Seattle, Washington. Funeral arrangements will be tnnermeed Inter. f ~ Cotton _ Report 1 I I t t . NEW ORLEANS COTTON Open High Low Close Prev. Clo«» Meh. 1R.44 18.58 18.43 18.58 18.33 May 17.97 18.09 17.96 18.07 17.93 Jnly 17.47 17.57 17.45 17.56 17.43 Oct.. Jfi 69 16.75 16.68 16.72 16.67 NEW YORK COTTON Mch. 19.30 19.35 19.20 19.33 19.20 May 18.70 18.77 18.64 18.76 18.6,3 July 18.08 18.15 18.02 18.14 18.02 Oct, 17.84 17.85 17.27 17.33 17.30 GRIFFIN SPOT COTTON Good Middling *' ll'll Strict Middling 17.75 Middling---- --17JW GRIFFIN DAILY Greetings, Springtime r i gs V ; i- '• mmm <S 5 .yxv; rtjS&J M k Tcm U - i.uu co.n.uus Mcuiiiicuddy, which is to . say Connie Mack, doing the catching in this game ot "one-I ey d c?*" or something at the Athletics’ training camp, Fort ' Myers, F!a. --- ^ ans ^ ave been completed for a proper observance in Griffin to „ morrow of , the ., 50th anniversary 0 f the telephone, it was announc ed today by Manager John T. The local exchan ? e wil1 kee P P en house a11 da y tomorrow. Tele P u custorners and tke 1 J Ffenera pu 1C are visit the ex ^; an " e during the day. Vls,tors wi!1 be S^eted by the operators and other telephone' workers and will see where their two lines come in on the switch board and how the complicated ? em “ of a srowin ^ community is rendered. Mr. Banks announced this morn . that of their 'ng as a part pro gram in the celebration of ,the semi-centennial of the telephone, the president of the company, Ben S. Read, will make a talk during the 10:45 program tomor- i row night from WSB radio broad casting station of the Atlanta Journal. Will Wear Buttons Every telephone worker in the entire country, almost half a mil lion in all, will wear an attractive button in commemoration of the event. The telephone has grown from a top in 1876 to a business and social necessity in 1926. Visitors to the exchange will hear the romantic story of the birth, baby hood and present growth of the j telephone. ; Having been invented by Dr. Bell in an effort tp^jsid the deaf to hear, the telephone has proved to be an instrument of service to mankind The early struggles of Dr. Bell and a few associates to convince the business world of the commercial value of the telephone his disappointments, and his fore . an< ^ energv r wb i cb I won success, form a story which few parallels in the history [ The industry telephone in America, folks anxious are to have their friends visit the ex c h an ?e and join them in honoring birthday of the telephone, There are many things worth see ing and it is declared that a warm welcome awaits all who accept the mutation, ' \ ECCLES, W. Va„ March 9. (AP) j —The plosion known here last dead night in a mine ex- in , was creased to nine today as rescue workers broke through the barriers of debris and found eight addition bodies near the shaft at the bottom of the Crab Orchard Im provement Company’s mine, Workers have redoubled their efforts to find alive some of the twenty other miners entombed by the blast. Acred Woolsev Man Dies From Worry Over Mate’s Death ,H. C. Reeves, one of the most rominent citizens of Fayette coun ty, died at his home at Woolsey, Ga., Monday msrht at 10 o’clock. He was taken ill immediately af ter his wife was burned to death two months ago and his death is attri ^ uted to worry over her death. He was prominent in all civic af fairs of his community. He was 83 years old and a member of the Methodist church. He is survived by two daugh ters, u Mrs. J. R. Jones, of Griffin, and Mrs. Mntt.ie Sikes, of Wool sey; three sons, C. C. Reeves, of Alvaton: E. L. Reeves, of Little River. Fla., and F. G. Reeves, of Mmmi, Fla., and one sister, Mrs. W - Funeral W - S*uter. services of Mansion. Ark. | will be held trom I™*™ Methodist church morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. 1 R *v. J. 8. Askew pastor will flciate * B,,rU1 w,?1 ** 1" Inman . cemetery , with Haisteu Brothers , funeral directors, in charge. PRIZES f FERED i ATHENS, Ga., March 9.—Prizes totaling thousand dollars to , one be awarded the farmers produc ing the largest yields of cotton on five acres this year were official ly announced today by Dr .An drew M. Soule, President of the State College of Agriculture. The supervision and -direction of this contest will be in charge of Prof. E. C. Westbrook, Cotton Special ist.. Correspondence relative to this matter should be directed to him. The first prize will amount *° ^* ve hundred dollars, the sec ond, two hundred and fiftv dollars. one hundred and fifty dol lar?. and the fourth one hundred dollars. The fortilizer manufac turers of Georgia are donating the money. The object of the contest is to help in the improvement of the °tanlo of cotton, and to encouratre hitrher acre yields in the state, officials in charge of the contest stated. Poor quality of lint, and low* nroduction per acre are de clared to be the greatest causes of losses to the cotton farmer and it is in an effort to correct these that the prizes are being offered. The contest will bt open to any farmer in the state, and five acres in ore body must be cultiva ted in order for the contestant to be eligible for a prize. Simple but accurate records must be kept, and, delivered to the county agent or person designated as chairman of the county cotton club. Readv mixed fertilizer with a side application or top dressing as resired by the grower, are to be used. The quality and length of staple will be tested by the cotton spec ialist of the State College of Agri culture from samples submitted by the grower. Prizes at Farmers’ Meet Winners in the contest will be announced at the Farmers’ Con ference at the State College of Agriculture in January 1927, and prizes awarded at that time Farmers may enroll now by making application to the county agent or vocational agricultural teacher, it was announced. Modem Church Edifice Planned In Savannah Soon SAVANNAH, Ga., March 9.-— The First Baptist church of this city will begin tearing down the resent buildings on the site of the new Sunday school on Whitaker street in the reach of the church April I, preparatory to the e^sc tion of modem church and structure, it was announced by officials here today. Actual work on the construction of the new church building is ex to begin about the middle of April. The contract has not yet let, but bids will 1* asked shortly. The structure will $60,000, the funds foT which have already been provided GRIFFIN. GA., TUESDAY. MARCH 9, 1926. ORGANIZE ATHENS," Ga., March 9, Sec retary C. C. Thomas has called a meeting in Athens on April 8 for |wid£* the-.tit urpose of organizing a State Chamber of Commerce. The i eeting will be held under the aus pices of the local Chamber of Commerce and the State College of Agriculture. Representatives from all Cham bers of Commerce in the State have been invited as well as coun ties without such organizations. The date for the meeting was set on the day before the welfare conference of the State College of Agriculture in order that citizens attending the meeting might stay over for the conference. Conner Resident Oi Sunny Side, Ga •1 Dies In Florida P. H. Brewster, 33, formerly of Sunny Side, died at a sanitarium in Miami, Fla., Saturday night fter an illness of only a few days. He had been in Florida about six weeks. The body arrived^hjonday nd was carried to the home of his ’"ather, Judge B. D. Brewster, at Sunny Side. Interment was made in the cemetery at Sunny Side. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Florence Brewster, of Sunny Side, small son, B. D. Brewster, Jr.; six sisters, Mrs. D. F. McClain, Ac worth, Ga.; Mrs. G. M. Nichols, Atlanta; Miss Dempsey Brewster, Deland, Fla.; Mrs. P. J. Mitchell, Sunny Side, and Mrs. Susie Gray and Mrs. Dial, both of Bartow, THa., and one brother, W. S. Brewster, of Sunny Side. Eivht New Banks Formed In Six QtatPC kjiaico Pact 1 aol Wrclr YTCCIt ATLANTA, Ga., March 9.— Eight new banks with combined capital of $2,200,000 are reported by The Southern Banker, Atlanta, Ga., this week to be in process of organization in Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee andVir glnia, while four existing banks in Florida, Mississippi and North Carolina have announsed capital increases totaling $245,000. Four new bank buildings are also plan ned, representing large invest ments in Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi. , The newly organized banks arc: Bank of Boca Ratcn, Fla.; the Horse Cave Deposit Bank, Horse Cave, Ky.; The Peoples-First Nat iional Bank of Charleston, S. C., a merger of the Peoples National Bank and the First National Bank 0 f that city; the South Carolina National Bank, a consolidation of the Carolina National Bank of Columbia. S. C., the Norwood Nat ional Bank of Greenville, S. C., and the Bank of Charleston, N. C.; the First A Peoples Trust Company, G«llatin, Tenn.; a bank as yet unnamed that is being ©r gsnized by the Trades and Labor . Council of Memphis, Tenn., and the City Bank of Ti, Briand to Form Ninth - ' Cabinet in France at - of POULTfiY SALE Will EE HELD f » Another big poultry sale will held in Griffin next Tuesday, it -was announced today by County Agent W. T. Bennett. The sale is being conducted by the farmers of palding county under the auspices of the county agent. / Four years ago these co-opera tive poultry sales were started in Spalding county and this will be the fourteenth sale. Good prices have always been received and the farmers have found the sales profitable. Car Secured The county agent announces that a poultry car has been secured! for the sale Tuesday and that I highest prices are expected to be paid for all poultry brought here. Tt will take 4,500 chickens to fill the car, but it is believed that no difficulty will be experienced in getting * a sufficient number. “This sale will afford an oppor tunity to poultry raisers to get rid of all non-producers and turn them into real cash,” said Mr. Bennett. All farmers and noultry raisers in Griffin and vicinity are to bring in their chickens and dispose o f them at a good price. PEOPLE GOING TO PEACH FETE Many Griffin people are plan ning to go to Fort Valley to at tend the annual Peach Blossom Festival on Thursday and Friday. This city will be well represented this year as in previous years. A number of parties have already been planned, it is learned on the reporter’s daily rounds in search of news. World Invited Ralph Newton general chairman of the fifth annual Georgia Peach Blossom Festival, sends out the fol lowing cordial invitation to the people everywhere to attend the Festival Thursday and Friday. At On March 11 and 12, Fort Val ley, will, like Lady Macbeth, and yet without her. sinister motive, bear welcome in her eye, her hand, her tongue, to thousands of Geor gians and hundreds from all parts of America who will come to the FMfth Annual Peach Blossom tivul. * a The Festival is all that this happy and joytous world ha* gathered into its meaning. It is an annual celebration of bloesom when bursting peach buds . speak their pink prophecies of the coming harvest. It is a glad ex- 1 pression in poetry and pantomine ■ of the romance of a great indus j try. A fertile soil, a kindly sky, and energetic people, and a bounti ful providence have spent them selves to bring forth the wealth of bud and the festival embodies in song and story, the gratitude of every heart, The Prodigal Peach “Of the more than a thousand men, women, and children who will have part in the pageant, each will feel what he is trying to express an deach will do his utmost to in terpret the meaning of the Prodi gal Peach, to the thousands who look on the beautiful parade of floats, the exouisite court of King and Queen, the colorful pageant with its music and rhythmic pan tomne are not alone for those who participate in them, they are for the pleasure of ml who come. “All. therefore, who come within og* gates to join with cheerful spirit m this happy celebration are heartily welcome The Festiva, ia for you. We connot enjoy it all by ourselves and we cannot enjoy it to the full unle™ you, too, enter into its spirit” PARIS, March 9. (AP)— Aristide Briand, veteran French statesmen, today ac cepted the mandate from President Doumergue to form his ninth cabinet to succeed the-one which fell Saturday. Once more, Briand proved the only French leader will ing to attempt to lead the country out of the financial bog in which it is floundering. “1 did not feel that I had the right to refuse,” he said. Herriot Declines Mandate PARIS, March 9. (AP)—Ed- i uard , Harriot, radical ... part,'leader, , , Loday declined the mandate of ^resident Doumergue that he form , new cab.net to succeed the Briand iTorriot ministry. proposed that Briand be | summoned, saying the premier must return to the League of Na ITU 'V'' m ^ G< ncva v,ith a l n? p * r “ ,n l( ac 1C ' ‘ ! ' 0 ^ rnman t- \ ‘ 0 rmn ministry res.gned Saturday after failure of a votc of confidence on sales tax pro visions of its gadget program. Demands for Briand PARIS, March 9. (AP)—De mand that Aristide Briand suc ceed himself as premier with per haps another finance minister than M. Doumer is growing more insistent from all quarters. Everyone is advising President Doumergue to request Briand to head the government again. Briand is said to be disgusted with the chamber and disheartened over its action toward his financial rehabilitation, and thus far has been resolute in hia refusal to run again. League Takes Recess GENEVA, March 9. (AP)—With the League of Nations assembly in a tangle arising from Ger many’s request for membership and the demands of four other countries—Poland, China, Spain and Brazil, for permanent seats , in the league council, the assembly was in recess today. Only the subcommittees of both the assembly and the council are at work and they are dealing with routine matters. It is possible that there will be no session until Aristide Briand returns from France, where he was called on account of the poli tical crisis. There has been no abatement in the claims by repreesntatives of the various countries seeking permanent se ats in the council and the Germans hold steadfastly to the ground that no seat be award ed until Germany is installed. Any suggestion that France might offer for the diminution of forces in Rhineland and the re duction of occupied area in ex change for Germany’s acquiescence |, Poland’s admission to the league 0 f nations falls on barren ground so far as the German delegation here is concerned. This was made clear today by German spokesmen. REVIVAL SERVICES The opening sermon in a of revival meetings at the Methodist church in was preached Sunday by Dr. J. Eakes, presiding elder of the fin district. The meeting will continued indefinitely by Rev. H. Maxwell, pastor of the MUCH INTEREST IN PROHIBITION POLL Voting in the Daily News and NEA Sendee prohibition poll began today with indications that a large of ballots will be ca»t. All people are invited to express their views on die prohibition question with the being held in strict confidence and that their not be divulged. Only one person in The News Office will read the ballots and no names will be printed er known. Fill out the ballot appearing in The News again today, mark in. the blank spaces whether you favor j prohibition with strict forcemeat, repeal of the law or modification of the | ao aa to allow the sale of light wine 1 --- ’be » it I to fbe Prohibition Editor, and your vote wffl ‘ } n ^ Vote conducted by 700 of thee NEA. V The result of die Invest jtfur m r-<-^ ■ ■ talent, your t / & influence in ESTABLISHED =ffrf TO FORCE ATLANTA, Ga., March 9. (AP) effort by bond opponents of Governor Walkef in the house to day to force that body into im mediate consideration of educa tional bonds was frustrated when Representative Milner’s motion in structimr the amendments commit to report thfi edueationa , bil , in tbe hm!se tomorrow for debate lg(jt by a votc of , 07 to 48> The Geor-in Public Service com mifls5oB w „„ Mh „ d in a resolut{on introduced in tba hollRe bv R cpre _ SPntntive Traylor, of Richmond, irate the freight rates on gasoline to Georgia and from point to point within the state, wide varia t ion in price , the reso , ut!on aaid> is aa much tt5 tbree cents per gallon between points in Georgia. The resolution was re ferred to a special judiciary com mittee. >« AT LUNCH TODAY n Dr. Gifford Gordon, distinguished 1 Australian orator, was the princi pal speaker at the Exchange club luncheon at noon today. He spoke on "Australia, The Student of America, *9 and told many In stances in which his land is copy ing this Nation. The principal theme of his ad dress had to do with the Eight amendment of the Constitu tion °* tke United States. Dr. Gordon made a strong appeal to the members of the club to join upholding the Constitution of the ( c °untry. i Dr. Gordon wil speak Wednesday ri * ht at * mass meeting to be held ® a PDst church. A special , in vitati< is extended all citizens i n to attend. Dr. Gordon was introduced to I tke Warren, Exchange meeting by Mrs. L. C. of this city. Macon Guests Five members of the Macon club were present. They were headed by Sid Phillips, secretary of the Macon club. This delegation extended an invitation to the Griffin club to attend the state meeing in Macon. I LITTLE JOE ! ...... ■ —................ ......... —J a.rajoc, UU ts sorarMuo all UKt <0 '"‘h • *