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TKK BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, JANUARY 4, 1934.
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Linton Dean, 79, prominent Rome
attorney and trustee of Shorter Col
lege, died Monday.
Hadley Jones has resigned the of
fice of sheriff of Brantley county to
enter private business.
Hcrschel V. Jenkins, publisher oi
the Savannah Press, is said to be
critically ill with pneumonia.
H. A. Edge ' has been appointed
county agent for Schley and Web
ster counties and has assumed his
duties as such.
R. P. Swan, of Wrens, Ga., has been
employed and is now actively en
gaged in the work of county agent
for Stewart county.
Wm. Edwin Brown, aged 76, life
long resident of Amerieus, and one of
the city’s most prominent 1 citizens,
died Tuesday night.
Mrs. L. J. Johnson, of Augusta,
waii burned to death Monday when
gasoline she was using to start a fire
exploded and set her clothing afire.
Congressman Itamspeck introduced
a bill at the first day’s session of
Congress proposing the crea.am of
an additional federal judgeship for
Georgia.
Edwin McKenzie and Miss May
Adams of Montezuma, were painfully
injured Sunday night when their au
tomobile hit a sand bank near Monte
zuma and turned over.
Robert L. Willis, retired Columbus
merchant and widely known through
out this section, succumbed to an ill
ness of several months at the Colum
bus hospital Tuesday afternoon.
Dr. N. C. Alston, 78, one of the
most widely known men of Southwest
Georgia, died at his home in Richland
Sunduy from a stroke < of paralysis
About a week previous to his death.
Sam P. Kakestraw, of LaGiange,
has been appointed deputy grand ex
alted ruler of Elks in tie ,r gia. His
selection was announced yesterday by
Walter P. Meier, grand exalted ruler.
Coincident with a shakeup in the
municipal affairs of Decatur, the re
port comes that Scott Candler, who
retired this week as mayor, will op
pose Congressman Robert Ramspeck.
Twelve Georgia artists have been
engaged by the CWA to paint the
scenic and historic glories of Georgia
it was said yesterday by J. J. Haver-
ty, director of the art projects in the
fifth region.
Grand opera stars will make anoth
er bow in Atlanta next week after an
absence of four years. The Chicago
Opera company will present nine ope
ras "t the citv auditorium beginning
’Monday, Jan. 8.
Congressman Homer Parker Tues
day r.’cented an invitation extended
him iV’ Governor Talmadge and the
State of Georgia to represent them at
Dm •<*'. —.-..-l ^„ rv !- e a (. Valley
Forge, Pa., Jan. 28. |
While hunting with his small air
rifle re"r h ! s homo, Grady Benford, 9
years of age of Ameri us. fell irio
an -ba”doned well and for approxi
mately five hones ’•pn-aip-'d i" the
deep pit, calling in vain for aid.
R. K. Andrus. 60, retired official of
the Columbian r ’^ Company, of Co
lumbus. OhVt. died i” a hospital at
Macon M""dnv night. He was en
route to Miami Beach, Fla., with his
wife and daughters when stricken ill.
S W. Goldstein. 38. one ,of Griffin’s
leading merchants n*d property own
ers. - J ’edT uesday after a long illness.
Mr. Goldstein w"s one of Griffin's
nvwt oublic ■mirited men. and sup
ported a number of charitable insti
tutions.
The state highway board will let
approximately $1,000,000 in new con
struction contracts on Jan. 11. The
projects include 40 miles of paving, 7
miles of grading and 10 bridges, it
was announced Monday by highway
department officials.
In recognition of the work he has
done for the University of Georgia
and the city of Athens. President S.
V. tSouf '-d. of the university, was
prese-t.ed with a handsome traveling
bs'* at a dinner given in his honor at
Athens Monday night.
A ten year old school boy was in
stantly killed and tiiree persons were
seriously hurt when an automobile in
which a father who was riding with
tmee children was struck by a fast
passenger train in the heart of Ac-
worth, Ga., yesterday.
All funds of the state department
of agriculture were tied up yesterday
by Dr. J. M. Sutton, state veterina
rian under temporary injunction
against commissioner of agriculture
G. C. Adams who removed Sutton's
name from the budget. .
Twenty-four Georgia women were
prize winners in the exhibition of
home canning at • the Century of
Progress Exposition at Chicago, it
was announced yesterday. More than
100,000 women from all over the
world part in the exhibit.
Zack D. Cravey, of McRae, was
sworn in Monday by Governor Tal
madge as state game and fish com
missioner for four years, succeeding
Peter S. Twitty, whose term expired.
Mr. Cravey resigned as tax collector
of Telfair county, home of Governor
Talmadge, to accept the game and
fish appointment.
R. W. (Bob) Glover, superintendent
of mails of the Amerieus post office
and a veteran of ‘ 30 years postal
service, was retired from service on
pension, Monday, Jan. 1, under pro
vision of the age limit regulations for
postal employes under civil service.
Mr Glove* had reached his 65th
birthday, the age limit.
The friends in Butler and through
out the Columbus district of Rev. and
Mrs. J. N. Peacock and J. ,N. Peacock
Jnr., of Albany, will be interested in
the announcement that the young
man has been admitted to the bar in
Albany. The elder Mr. Peacock is a
former Presiding Elder of the Colum
bus District, South Georgia Metho
dist conference. |
G. B. Hamilton, state treasurer, has
been appointed on a committee of 7
nationally known .certified public nc-
coutantB to work out the problems of
a uniform system of bookkeeping and
accounting for state governments, G.
P. Ellis, president of the American
Society of Certified Public accoun
tants announced this week.
Miss Alice G. Carr, formerly of
McRae, a veteran war nurse und now
director of the health-education work
of the American Near East Founda
tion in Athens, Greece, has been
awarded a gold medal by the Greek
government, according to advices just
received at the headquarters of the
foundation in New York.
Control of the Fox, Paramount,
Georgia and Capitol theaters in At
lanta Tuesday passed into the hands
of Lucas and JenkinB, operators ol
motion picture houses in the principal
cities of the state, thru a deal nego
tiated in New York by which the
theaters were acquired from the
Valatenga Theaters, owned by Fam
ous Theaters, of New York.
New department heads to serve
Amerieus during 1934 have been
named by the mayor and council of
Amerieus, as follows: Will Horne,
mayor pro tern; Dudley Gatewood, Jr.
clerk and treasurer; J. H. Sbumuke,
city marshal; John Worthy, chief of
police; John Monohan, chief of fire
department; Sherley Hudson, city en
gineer, and R. L. LeSuer, * city re
corder.
Grady Cooksey, former city editor
of the Albany Herald, has been ap
pointed private secretary to Repre
sentative E. iM .Cox of the ' Second
Congressional district of Georgia. He
succeeds J. M. Mayo, who left the
secretary’s office several months ago
to become head of the district organ
ization of the United States Home
Owners Loan Corporation, which has
ita office in Albany.
A resolution expressing apprecia
tion for the great contribution made
to Amerieus and Southwest Georgia
by Dr. John M. Prance, president of
Georgia Southwestern College, and
regret over losing him as a citizen
when he leaves soon to (become gen
eral manager of the million dollar
federal farm colony in Georgia, was
adopted by the Amerieus Kiwanis
Gli’ih at its weekly luncheon meeting
last week.
Before a large delegation of
friends and government officials, J. A.
Heck of Marietta was sworn in Mon
day by Governor Talmadge for a six
year term as state highway commis
sioner. W. E. Wilburn of Oglethorpe,
took oath of office as chairman for
the next four years. The • ceremony
was colorful ending in a general
laugh when Governor Talmadge re
marked: ‘‘Well, this gives Cobh coun
ty a highwayman for six years.”
Vienna's school building, destroyed
by fire early Christmas morning, is to
be replaced toy a structure much
larger, wnok of which has already be
gun. and will be rapidly pushed to
completion. The new building will
cost around *160,000. Funds have
been secured from the CWA to the
amount of $160,000. The remainder
will toe furnished by the city of Vi
enna, including the insurance .on the
old building.
A. D. Poole, former Atlanta police
officer. Monday faced trial in Conk
countv superior .court, for murder, in
the highway necident death in 1971
n* .Toe Paffnrd. Lanier county youth.
Poole in a former trial was convicted
on a manslaughter ehnr<*e. in connec
tion with the depth of Miss Winona
Psttcr''c*. who also died of inhiries
received in the wreck.An appeal to the
state supreme court resulted in re
versal of the lower court and a new
trial.
Posing as customers, three young
white men held up and robbed T. T.
Carstarphen in the Carstarphen
Warehouse company store at Macon
of approximately $500 Monday night.
Before rifling the cash register, one
of the bandits struck Mr. Carstarphen
a blow in the face with his pistol and
forced him to sit on the floor behind a
counter. The holdup men, all bare
headed, went thru the register, dis
carding checks, and escaped with the
loot in a black Ford sedan.
Tt appears that the commotion
raised over the possibility of a va
cancy in the chairmanship of the
State Revenue commission was pre
mature. Observers were mindful of
the feud between the Governor and
Chairman P. H. Doyal over the sale
of $3 auto taps and anticipated some
fireworks. While the chairman and
governors are not comrades, the terms
of the reorganization bill make a
definite provision in Doyal's favor,
stating that the present incumbent
shall serve a full term of four years
and that the governor shall designate
a chairman.
Columbus suffered the loss during
the past week of 1 two of its most
prominent citizens in the death of Mr.
A. C. Chancellor and Mr. Claude A.
Hatcher. For more than forty years
Mr. Chancellor was engaged in the
clothing business and witli marked
success. Mr. Hatcher was president of
Nehi, Inc., one of the world's largest
soft drink beverages. He moved to
Columbus from Dawson in 1 1901 to
engage in the wholesale grocery busi
ness. In the basement of his ware
house he began the manfacture of
soft drinks. From this beginning
sprang the Nehi organization which
now covers 40 states and includes
more than 600 bottling plant fran
chises. I
PRANCE IS SELECTED
FARM COLONY’S HEAD;
JACOB SUCCEEDS HIM
EXECUTIVE HEAD OF EXPERI
MENT IS EXPERIENCED IN
TEACHING FARMING.
Atlanta, Dec. 28.—J. M. Prance,
for 14 years head of Georgia South
western College at Amerieus and a
life long advocate and practioner of
planned, diversified farming, will be
the executive head of Chancellorsville
Homestead Community, Inc., in the
development of a million-dollar model
farming project in Georgia.
Peyton Jacob, former dean of the
department of education at Mercer
university, will succeed Prance at the
Amerieus school, subject to confirma
tion by the board of regents of the
Georgia university system.
The selections were made public
Thursday following a meeting of di
rectors of the farm pnoj .ct, at which
several counties in the lower Pied
mont arc of the state submitted pro
posals for the site’ of Chancellors
ville.
Chancellor Phillip Weltner of the
university system, chief sponsor of
the project, said progress was made
toward a decision on where it would
be carried out. but could not predict
just when final action will be taken.
It was learned that proposals
were offered by Green, Wilkes, Put
nam. Jones and Jasper counties and
possibly others, all on the basis of
lands actually under option.
The land is to he bought outright
by the corporation, which is operatic*!
on a $1,000,000 grant of federal pub
lic works funds. Plans for -he project
(•"11 for prtatoBshmpnt .of orncess ,r e
plants and marketing facilities, with
about 300 families to he settled on
adlaeeut lands and their farming pro
gram t.o t>e built around the market
so established-.
A minimum of 20.000 _ acres, as
neprlv as possible in a solid block, is
sought.
Prance the general manager of
the project, is a native Georgian. He
was born and reared on a Cobb coun
ty farm and received his education at
the University of Georgia, Georgia
Tech and Mercer. Ha holds B. A. and
M. A. degrees from Mercer.
He has been connected with the
Amerieus school for 26 years, since
its organization, spending the first 12
years there as a teacher of mathe
matics.
For 18 years Georgia Southwest
ern operated as an agricultural school
on a program largely established by
Prance.
That program, he said, was based
primarily on virtual elimination of
cotton, with emphasis oil food and
feed crops, soil improvement through
use of legumes, and reclamation of
swamp lanl with carpet and Dallas
grass and lespedeza.
Although it has dropped agricul
tural teaching since it took on junior
colege work, Georgia Southwestern
still operates its farm, with 10 acres
in cultivation and 50 in pasture, 20
acres of the pasture land being the
laboratory on which Prance has car
ried out successfully his ideas of
swamp reclamation.
The school has its herds of Jersey
cattle and Dunoc hogs, its flock of
chickens, its feed mill and canning
plant, closely following, on a smaller
scale, the program planned for Chan
cPorsville.
Friends said Prance had b en
"wondering for about 12 years why
somebody with the money did not do
what is planned at Chancellorsville.”
Prance himself would say only
that he expected to carry out the
plans of the directors of the corpora
tion in what he called “potentially
the most valuable project ever under
taken in the state.”
D. N. Harvev, J. S. Malone, J. N.
Walker, G. S. Ballard. O F Holland,
•T L. Benton and State Senator W. H.
Key all of Monticello, made up one of
the most active delegations here seek
ing the project for their counties.
LAWRENCE TAKES
DUNAWAY’S POST
Atlanta, Jan. 3.—The state prison
commission Wednesday announced
former superintendent of the prison
Lawrence of Mllledgeville to he su
perintendent of the state prison farm
at Milledgeville.
The appointment of B. H. Dunaway
former superiintendent of the prison
farm, as Tattnall county warden also
was anounced. He succeeds E. F.
Eberhardt. who was transferred to
Crisp county.
EDITOR MILLER IS
BURIED IN STATESBORO
Statesboro, Ga., Dec. 22.—The fu
neral of J. R. Miller, editor of the
Savannah Hawkeye, 1 who died here
at the home of his son in Pembroke,
was held Dec. 22. Sendees were con.
ducted by Rev. John S. Wilder, Sa<
vannah; Rev. J. A. Thornton and Rev.
C. M. Coleson. Interment was in the
Statesboro cemetery.
FUGITIVE GIVES UP
AFTER 12 YEARS
Douglas, Ga., Dec. 29.—John H.
Theus, escaped life termer who has
been at liberty for the last 12 years,
hitch hiked his way from Texas to
Douglas tc surrender last night to
Sheriff Relinhan.
Theus was convicted in 1921 of the
murder of Inez Rowell, a child. He
escaped before his trial, was recap
tured, convicted, then he escaped
again and remained at liberty for
18 months. Again he was imprisoned
only to flee the Coffee countv chain
gang soon afterward. He went West,
was married and has a child.
GEORGIA DOCTOR IS
HELD IN DOPE CASE
Waycross, Ga., Dec. 29.—Dr. A. D.
Williams, widely known Folkston and
Waycross physician once a candidate
for Congress from the Eighth Dis
trict, is out today under $500 bond
following commitment before tne
United States commissioner here in
connection with a narcotic complaint
filed by Agent C. E. Miller.
Charges against Dr. Williams are
expected 1° be reviewed by the next
federal grand jury in the Southern
District of Georgia, which is expected
to be convened in Savannah.
The complaint charges Dr. Williams
was ‘‘in violation .of the Harrison anti
narcotic act in that he did unlawfully
sell morphine sulphate not in pursu
ance of the required order form.”
TALMADGE FIXES
AUTO TAG PRICE
Atlanta, Jan. 1.—Governor T(\l-
madge Monday ordered automobile
license tags for all trucks and pas
senger cars in the state suspended
wit hthe exception of $8 payments.
His order kept in force one issued
last year after the legislature ad
journed without reducing the license
fees and is made under the law givine
the executive the right to suanend
taxes pending another meeting of the
general assembly.
Tlie tax on motorcycle sidecars is
suspended entirely.
The 1934 tags have orange letters
on a blue baeVo-round, arc sma’ler
than those of 1933 and are lettered A.
B. C. D. and E. according to the size
of the car, the A’s being for the
heaviest vehicles.
GENERAL MOSLEY IS
l SUCCESSOR TO KING
Washington, Jan. 2.—Maj. Gen.
George Van Horn Mosley, now com
mander of the Fifth Corps area at
Fort Ha vs, Columbus, Ohio, was ap
pointed Tuesday as commander of the
Fourth Corps area with headquarters
in Atlanta.
Moseley succeeds Maj. Gen. ] Ed
ward King, who died of a heart at
tack last week.
Moseley, whose home is in Evans
ton, 111., was formerly deputy chief
of staff in the War Department.
No announcement has been made as
to the new commanding officer of
the Fifth Corps Area. |
FURNITURE DEALER
IS FATALLY BURNED
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 29.—E. R. Mc
Kee, a furniture dealer of Columbus,
was found burned to death in the
basement of his home in Columbus
Friday.
Officers at first said there was no
evidence of foul play but after Mrs.
McKee said her husband recently had
received threatening letters it was
decided a further investigation would
be made.
Mrs. McKee was visiting in- Bir
mingham but returned to Columbus
after the body was found
JAIL BREAKER RECAPTURED
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 29.—Durant
Shaddix, 21, boastful leader of three
escaped convicts who kidnaped and
beat Supt. B. H. Dunaway of the
state prison farm was in jail in At
lanta Friday and bound over to the
grand jury under $6,000 bond follow
ing his capture early Friday. The des
perate prisoner, boasting no jail could
hold him, was recaptured at the home
of his mother in Atlanta at 3:00 a. m.
Friday after an old sweetheart whom
he had visited earlier in the night
“tipped” officers.
MONTEZUMA MAY GETiAIR PORT
Montezuma, Ga., Dec. 29.—Citizens
of Montezuma and Macon county are
very much interested in the proposed
air field to be constructed here. City
officials and citizens are doing every
thing possible to get the movement
approved and going. Engineers re
cently visited the proposed site for
the field and were well pleased with
the location.The .city was requested to
obtain a lease and an- option to buy
the land on which the air port is to
be constructed and it is understood
that this had already been done.
SMITH IS RENAMED
MAYOR OF COLUMBUS
Columbus, Jan. 2.—H. C. Smith
was reelected mavor of' Columbus
Tuesday for the third term.
J. B. Knight, reelected a member
of the city commission, took the oath
of office for a five year term.
William Del. Worslev was reelected
city attorney and Milton Long re
elected city clerk.
COTTON MILLS AT
NEWNAN ARE PADLOCKED
Newnan, Ga., Dec. 28.—Gates of
the East Newnan Cotton mill were
padlocked by a crowd of men Wednes
day and the mill was shut down by
the management, throwing about 300
persons on day and night shifts out
of work.
R. H. Freeman, president of the
Newnan Cotton mills, which operates
the mill at East Newnan, said the
action in locking the gates and keep
ing workers away from their posts
apparently was “in protest” at a re
cent decision of the State Labor
Board.
NO. 1 Page One
crats 'hold the reign of dictatorship,
and have shown the nation that a
Democratic reign can make and re
peal an ammendment—repeal of
prohibition. Also the victorious Dem
ocrats have taken the slogan ‘N'ever
Run Again,” from the overthrown
Republicans (who were dusted in the
’32 land slide) and made of it the
National Recovery Administration,
NRA. Those who were glad to stand
in the soup lines of '31 and ’32 are
now working and are ashamed to
accept free aid. The U. S. reached
across the Atlantic and clasped the
hand of Saint Russia, the first time
in over 15 years. Woiodrow Wilson’s
masterpiece, the League of Nations,
almost staggered to destruction in '33
but th" leaders of the world are
ready for even a better drove of pea. e.
The world's strongest uolitical au
tocracy, Tammany Hall, fell to de-
st’T-tion in '33. The South's end
West’s dream of bimentalism and in
flation rrt gtl-rr looks to he a true
realization of 1933. Then one of the
greatest creative products of ’33 is
the C. C. C.. an organization the fu
ture will realize iu the restoration of
forests 0*4 near in the voice of the
trees. The past vear hes riearri the
road and a° we leave ’34 for ’36
should be "Me to sav “Cod's in His
Heaven, all is well on earth.”
* • *
Georgia seemed too small to hold
the most of the hoys during the holi
days. The majority of Camp 1430 de
rided that the climate and surround
ings farther west would be more
pleasant than here, and it goes with
out saying that the people of Mis-
-issirri didn’t have to guess when
these boys reached home.
* * *
Old man John Barly.com didn't
dominate to a very great extent at
the Camp during the holidays; only a
verv few bowed to the illusive charms
of his leadership. The few things that
haoDered out of the ordinary can’t be
claimed by the “Crown of Prosperi
ty”. However, there are sti'l a few
things to be cleared un. Here are
some of the mysteries: What
hallucinated John Jones into thinking
himself in an apartment house, fo 1
he was seen peering through the kev
Vjole of +h» Berrark door. What
caused “High-oacheo” Hindman to
tbi-dr ‘too ~.dig i* the Dixie Paf e W"S
a stove (the day was saved here
when it .was e-'u’aiued that High-
pocket is from Arkansas.)
...
The most enjoyable feature of the
holidays were the dinner served in
the Mess Hall Christmas and New
Year’s Day. If anyone lacked for fi>od
they were away from Camp. Turkey,
uje. cakes and many other delicious
eats were in terms of “Big” Ever-
ette’s appetite, enhaled.
...
There are many grim faces at camp
this week because of the quarantine
placed upon the camp on account of
measles.
GEORGE, RUSSELL AND
CASTELLOW EXPECT
CWA TO CONTINUE
According to telegrams received
from Senators George and Russell,
and Congressman Castellow, CWA
work will not be discontinued in Geor
gia until at least March 1st.
It is not desired that this work in
any way interfere with farm work,
and it is understood that it will be
handled in such a way as to avoid
this. At the same time Georgia’s rep
resentatives do not favor carrying it
on in other states, and discontinuing
it in this state, and they will oppose
any move in this direction.
As long as the work is carried on
they will also oppose any move to pay
laborers in Georgia less money than
is paid laborers in other states. It is
fully realized that there may be some
few changes which could be made
that might be beneficial in certain
ways, to certain sections, but Direc
tor Hopkins has pointed out, to delay
the program in order to figure out
every change desired, would defeat its
purpose, and these changes will not
be made. In other words the entire
program is desired to help bring hack
a certain degree of prosperity all
over the United States, and any
change made will be a general one,
and no discriminaiton will be practic
ed.
ELLAVILLE MERCHANT IS
ATTACKED AND ROBBED
Ellaville, Ga., Dec. 26.—Albert
Richardson, well known Ellaville
merchant, was attacked and robbed
while he was counting the day’s re
ceipts in his store Saturday night.
Two men and a boy entered the
store and one of the men struck Sir
Richardson, rendering him uncon
scious. The trio then proceeded to
rob him and make their escape.
It was more than an hour before
Mr. Richardson recovered sufficiently
to report the robbery.
The exact amount of money taker
by the robbers was not determined.
ALL DOING NICELY
Relatives of Middle Georgia’s
powerful Congressman, Carl '• Vinson,
are not complaining. As chairman of
the all powerful Naval Appropriations
committee, Vinson exerts considerable
influence both in Washington and .in
his own bailwick. For proof, how did
the giant airship Macon, get its
name ?
The Vinson relatives have been
given nine government jobs, some
with county administrations and oth
ers with CWA, PWA, and Federal
agencies. In one county of the dis
trict, nine Vinson kinsfolk are to he
found °n the payroll. Of course none
of them is named Vinson, there be
ing a liberal sprinkling of ordinary
cognomens.
PRESS BOARD MEMBERS
' NAMED BY FLEETWOOD
Cartersville, Ga., Dec. 27. M. L
Fleetwood, president elect of the
Georgia Press Association who goes
into office on Monday has announced
the reappointment of W. T. Shytle, of
Adel, editor of the Adel NewB, as a
member of the hoard of managers of
the Georgia Press Association. The
board for the coming year will con-
1 ro r ', F ' eetw o°<l’ W. K. Sutlive
of the Blackshear Titoes, C. E. Benns
of Atlanta e B H *« ld, » Hal M ’ Stan 'ey
[ of Atlanta, B. H. Hardy, of the
Barnesville News-Gazette, Gordon
Saussy of Savannah, attorney of the
association; Louie Morris of thA u n *f
well Sun; Jack Williams of Jhe Wav'
cross Journal Herald, John Paachal
, of the Atlanta Journal, W O Passa
vant of the Newnan Heraid and Mr
ohytle. •
Mr Fleetwood will have a complete
list of committee announcements to
make early in the new year.
CLOSED SEASON ON VOTE
HUNT URGED BY DEAN
Valdosta Ga., Dec. 16.—Distribu
tion of political patronage should be
taken out of the hands of members of
Congress and Senators and there
should be a lawful “closed’ season
for hunting votes, is the opinion of
Braswell Dean, of Alma, member of
Congress from the Eighth District,
who was the guest of Valdosta friends
for a time tins week.
., ®*r. Dean is of the opinion that
the distribution of political patronage
deters Congressmen and Senators
from doing their best service for the
people.
“Political patronage,” he said, "Is
the greatest influence in politics and
I think it should be taken out of the
hands of Congressmen and Senators
and placed in the hands 0 f the state
central political committee so that
deri”* ne W ° Uld ?<?t 8 falr and 8< I uare
Congressman Dean said that since
he has been in Washington he has
foud thp iob of a Congressman to he
at very hard one "and I don’t like it,
but I am trving to do some good for
the peonle I represent.
CANADIAN ROY GIVES
GRASS WIDOW DEFINITION
Montreal, Dec. 5.—The school sea
son is well underway at Montreal and
the first schoolboy "howlers” are mak
ing their appearance. A 9 year old boy
bus taken the lead with his classic
definition of a “grass widow.” “A
grass widow,” he wrote, “is the wife
of a dead vegetarian.”
MISS STRIPLING
KILLED IN CRASH
LaC-range, Ga., Dec. 28.—Margaret
Stripling, 21, of Chipley, was killed
and six other persons injured in an
Wednesday night?” LaGran S e
SPANISH-AMERICAN
OFFICERS ELECTED
Amerieus, Ga., Dec. 23.—Officers
have been elected by W. C. Davis
camp, United Spanish War Veterans
at * A ^ er p U - s - T he y are as follows:
a D a *2*?; ButIer - commander; F.
i; M d, e U er ’ senior vice oomman-
aer, M. L. Morgan, Amerieus, junior
Am . C ? mman :l er J H. G. Stanfield,
Amerieus, adjutant quartermaster;
vears- R ° a’ A K C ? 8 ’ trUs . tee ’ three
nniwoi. • 4- Nicholson, Amerieus,
patriotic instructor; Rev. J. S. Grah!
chaplam; Fred Bone, Butler, officer of
the day: Jesse Peek, officer of the
, se Joiner, sergeant major
™ Pa ’r. r H ” rt - chief musician.
Tho affairs of the camp were re-
ported by officers to be in satisfac-
tory condition.
SAMUEL BLACK MADE
MAYOR OF THOMASTON
Thomaston, Dec. 23.—Samuel Black
will be the next mayor of Thomaston
having meen elected Friday to suc
ceed B. U. McKenney, who did not
offer for reelection. G. C Bevel, Cecil
Harris, E. H. Black and F. D. Mc-
Kenny were elected to city council.
GEORGIA CROPS ARE i
WORTH $128,863,hOO
Athens, G a ., Dec. 28.—Georgia
$128 863 £K f 933 * ec . eived a total °f
$148,863,000 for their crops, an in
crease of 92 per cent, over last year,
said a report Thursday from the
Georgia Crop Reporting Service.
BESSIE TIFT DAIRY
MANAGER KILLS SELF
Forsyth, Ga., Dec. 24.—A. J. Wilson
Jr., dl, shot himself through the head
r riday and died without regaining
consciousness. He was employed as
head of the dairy at Bessie Tift col
lege.
ZACH ARNOLD AGAIN
HEADS BAR ASSOCIATION
PATAULA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Fort Gaines, Ga., Dec. 14.—
Pataula Bar association met at
Gaines Tuesday evening with the <
County Bar ' association. Presii
Zach Arnold and Secretary Jas.
Bonner of Blakely called the m
mg.
Hal F. Lawson,' president of
Ciporgia Bar association of Hawk
ville, was present and delivered
principal address. W. W. Dykes
Amerieus, member of the Third
trict Bar association, urged the 1
yers to join' the state associal
Judge C. W. Worrill of Cuthbert n
an appeal to get the lawyers of
Pataula circuit to join the asaociai
Mr. Arnold was re-elected pi
dent and Mr. Bonner was ele
secretary.