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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JUNE 13, 1935.
KWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Injued in a crash between a mo
tor truck and a box car, u man listed
a' a Savannah hospital us I). E. D.
Sheffield, of Baxley, died Monday.
Funeral services for Mr. Hines M.
Smith, son of the lute Charles Hen
ry Smith (Bill Arp), the widely
read Georgia humorist, were held
at Rome, Ga., Monday.
Cost of feeding the nation’s needy
until they are made self-supporting
is cutting into the $4,000,000,001) re
employment fund at the rate of
more than $4,000,0(H) every 24 hours
says a dispatch from Washington.
Officials admitted the $880,000,000
originally set aside for direct relief
probably would not suffice.
With the season for hatching baby
chirks practically over, the Georgia
Hatchery men report
PAVO PAPER PLANT DAMAGED
Pavo, Ga., June 11.—The Pavo
News plant was damaged by a fire
Sunday which also damaged a cold
storage house and produce establish
ment in the same building.
SAVANNAH MAN DIES
Savanah, June 11—Walter P.
_ successful Smith, partner in the firm, Chatham
year, Arthur Gannon, extension poul- Printing Co., and brother of the lute
tryman, states. The demand for day- Bridges Smith, once mayor of Ma-
old chicks has been unusually heavy con, died at Savannah Tuesday morn-
ever since the first of January, and j n g after an extended illness.
The annual encampment held by i mos t of the 124 hatcheries in Geor
4-H Club Girls of Muscogee (Co
lumbus) and Chattahoochee counties
opened Monday at ICelbeck and con
tinued through Wednesday.
Henry C. Butler, 84, widely known
LaGrange business man who was one
of the developers of real estate in
LaGrange, died at his home in that
city Sunday of a heart attack.
C. L. Kinard, Moultrie filling sta
tion operator, was shot twice and
robbed of $150 by two young men
Saturday night. One bullet pene
trated a leg and the other an arm.
A pickpocket who operated at the
Gipsy Smith revival meeting Sunday
afternon at the city auditorium in
Atlanta obtained $108 in currency
and $23 in checks from two victims.
Allen Davis, 20, of Augusta, was
killed Sunday night as his automo
bile struck a ditch ami overturned
near Grovetown, J. T. ltatbbone, who
gia have run at full capacity, be
lays.
With the purchase at Eatonton
Saturday of 1,600 acres of submar,
ginal land, the Federal Government
raised its land holdings in Putnam
county to about 12,000 acres. An
average price of $4.50 an acre has j after a commitment hearing Satur-
been paid it is said. An additional ] dgy before L - s Commissioner W.
is owned b\ tne j, jj ar ,.j n< Tfi e shooting occurred I of your
WOMAN HELD FOR SHOOTING
Mac on, June 8.—Accused by fed
eral agents of shooting at them, a
woman booked as Mrs. M. O. Smith,
of Gray, in Jones county, was or
dered held for federal court trial
| 12,000-acre tract is owned by
Rehabilitation
the
Cor-
| about 3:40 a. m. Friday as officers
JOHN M. ANGLIN, LUMPKIN
EDITOR, EMPHASIZES VALUE
OF NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
Lumpkin, Ga., June T.—The value
of one’s newspaper to the success of
his business cannot be overestimated
John M. Anglin, editor ami business
manager of the Stewart-Webster
Journal declared at Lumpkin in an
editorial headed “A Letter to Mer
chants.” 4 .
"It’s Worth all the support and
co-operation you can give it, Mi.
I Anglin says. "For the newspaper is a
mirror reflecting the life o' .he
community in which you and your
I store have an important part,
j “Your advertisement is the leflec-
tion of your store in this mirror.
Everybody sees it there. If it i- not
i there the mirror is dark where your
■ store should he. You are there but
! you cannot be seen. Your store is
I open for business as usual, bu' with
i the public it is out of mind.
I "To keep in step with the progress
community; to get your
hare of business, you
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ties for community enjoyment with
their neighbors and friends through
out the whole county. To this end
the club officials have extended^ Die
privileges of the club free of charge
to every High school ppil in the
countv, and the public general'y is
cordially invited to make this place
the cei ter of their social and turre-
ationul a" vities. T.ts swimming
pool, golf course and tennis courts
cun be enjoyed by everyone on the
payment of a small fee. Civic or
ganizations, clubs and lumilies are
invited to come here for their pic
nics and outings.
Thut the people of Taylor county
may be more conscious of the ad
vantages of the opportunity they
levelopment, We pub-
RUSSELL, GEORGE
BACK NEW DEAL
SUPREME COURT DECISION t,\
NRA, THEME OF UOMMENu
MEM TALKS BY SENATORS,
Atlanta, June 10.—The supreme
court decision voting the NR A form
ed tne theme of commencement a<1
dreses in Atlunta Monday by (;g, )r [
gia’s two United States senators"
each of whom defended the national
administration and its New 1x4)
policies.
Ser.nator Walter F. George spoke
at graduation exercises of tne 'Geor
gia School of Technology, Wm | e
Senator Ricahrd B. Russell, Jr
delivered the principal address a 't
University
oemmenee-
Georgia Rural
poration. j said they drove past the Smith home , tise regularly. Take your newspaper
Business conditions in Greensboro I on the paved highway two blocks
ami Greene county are considered from the clepoit at Gray.
the best they have been in several
years. Deposits in the five banks in 'pI^MAIXiES INVITE
the county showed ~ .
has in this .
lish a voluntary letter from Dr. | the Emory
J. A. Redfern, one of the most prom- ' ment,
inent physicians and civic leaders ot | Senator George said the Roosevelt
South Georgia, who was a member government’s reaction to the supreme
of the Albany Golf Team that play- court ruling “may easily present to
must adver- 1 ed the local Reynolds team at Rey- the American people the most mo-
mc reuse
when their last statements were
made, 'lhere is only one vacant store
building in that city, and there are
no vacant residences, a recent sur
vey indicated.
Talbotton superior court convened
Monday morning last for a recessed
MRS. ROOSEVELT
.rco, -• --. —, ,,„ term lrom the March regular session.
was riding with Davis, was slightly j, fhe cl . immal dotketl which is one
injured.
Applications for allotments of
cotton under the Bankhead Act can
not be accepted by the State Allot
ment Board after next Saturday, G.
V. Cunningham, board chairman, saM
this week.
Miss Martha Cobb, of Sumter
county home demonstration agent,
and approximately 50 Four-H club
of the heaviest in s everal
was taken up yesterday. Among otn-
er cases is that of G. C. board,
charged 1 with malicious mischief in
connection with auditing the t/oufes of
the bang of 'lalbotton, now closed.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer and
the Albany Herald are sponsoring a
molucaue to celebrate completion of
the Florida Short Route in Georgia.
Atlanta, June 10.—When Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt comes to At
lanta to speak at the American Pris
on Association convention Oct. 27-31
she will be entertained in the home
of Gov. and Mrs. Eugene Talmadge.
Announcement of the desire of the
! governor to have Mrs. Roosevelt as
y s ’ a guest at the mansion was made by
Clark Howell, Sr., editor and presi
dent of the Atlanta Constitution.
publisher into your confidence; he
give you valuable assistance. Estab
lish an advertising budget. Plan a
regular schedule for your advertise
ments. It’s a policy that is followed
by the most successful stores; it’s an
idea that will be profitable to you.”
S3. txs .? £svsi> »~-"r 'the
three-day ca p. ' Columbus City commission ha\e
Senator Walter F. George de- l adopted resolutions approving the
livered the commencement address to i motorcade and accepting invitations
JOHN KING, 20, DROWNED
IN LAKE NEAR MONTICELLO
Atlanta, Jur.e. 7.—John King, 20, !
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde L. King,
of Atlanta, was drowned in a lake
near Monticello, Ga., early Saturday
afternoon, servants at the King
home were informed.
Mr. King, who is president of the
Atlanta Plow Company, and Mrs.
King were at Grove Park Inn in
Nor.h Carolina at the time of the
tragedy.
! A Mr. Perry, friend of the Kings,
Sylvester, Ga., June 11.—Fire of I informed their servants here by tele-
undetermined origin Monday night phone of the drowning of the promi-
destroyed the barn and packing ! nent young Atlantan.
! house of the Sylvester Fruit Co., one With a party of friends, he had
of the largest cantaloupe packing gone to Monticello or Friday njght
nolds on Thursday last. His letter
shows that he, on his first visit,
caught the spirit of this deverop-
ment in our neighboring community
that the advantages to our boys and
girls in providing healthful sports at
home.
Office of J. A. Redfern, M. D.,
Albany, Ga., June
Messrs Bond & Hinton,
Reynolds, Ga.
Gentlemen:
Permit me to
thank, you for a
mentous political issue of modern
times."
Conceding that there were “de.
fects” in the now invalidated na-
tional industrial recovery act
George said he was “certain that in'
the heart of the great executive wh u
___ sponsored it there lived the firm con-
1935! 1 fiction that the recognition of social
, responsibility in our highly complex
! machine age and civilization was the
I first essential of good govern,ment.''
! “The ultimate preservation of t|| e
Union,” he continued, “depends upon
the retention, unimpaired, of the du.
a! system of government set up by
ONE OF STATE’S LARGEST
CANTALOUPE PACKING
HOUSES BURNS MONDAY
the senior class of the Georgtu
School of Technology and degrees
were awarded at the Fox Theater,
Monday, June 10.
to pjoin it.
A series of fires in Bamesville have
caused considerable property loss
] (luring the pust few days it is said
Legionnaires of the sixth Georgia The largest loss was that oi tne
.. • 11 Pn in urnmn 11 Willi
district at a rally at Jeffersonville
Sunday endorsed Major Quimby Mel
ton, of Griffin for the post of na
tional executive committeeman of
the American Legion.
Bud Jones, Mitchell county negro,
was back in the death cell at the
Smith Furniture Co., in which about
$2,500 worth of furniture was dam
aged by water. A sprinkling system
in the factory prevented destruction
of the entire plant. Several resi
dences also have been dumaged by
Humes recently.
The citizens of Villa Rica will be
t^srTJsrJrsssL .rXaVt <u^r u
ing saved from the electric ctair by : «£■ « £
“ ™. P ‘ te T„?L.W dB> *\tion Saturday, June 22, acc
and shipping concerns in the state.
The loss, which was partially covered
by insurance, is estimated at $20,-
000.
In addition to the buildings, a car
load of cantaloupes, 13 mules, 89
cows, several wagons and a horse
were lost in the blaze.
“GROSS FRAUDS" CHARGED
IN CHATHAM COUNTY VOTE
pend the week end ait the King
home there.
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that if Linder makes any statement
prior to the June 20 deadline, it
should be accompanied by copies of
an issue of the Market Bulletin “pre
pared in harmony with requirements
of the law,” together with written
Savannah, June 8.—Geo. H. Rich- assurance that all future issues of
ter, prominent Savannah attorney, the Bulletin “will measure up to the
charged today thre4 were “gross I standaids set thereunder.”
most delightful afternoon on a splen
did golf course Thursday. In fact it
means a greut deal more than this, “he^onstitutioiT”
to which Mr. White and I agreed tne con8t >tution.
while returning home. It is quite
natural from time to time in life 101
the thought to arise asking the
question, if you were going to leave
your home town where would you
go?
Until yesterday this question, so
far as I am concerned, had never
been answered. But today there is
no lingering doubt whatsoever. I
hope that it will never be necessary
for me to leave Albany, but if it ever
does, please make room for me in
Reynolds where I believe there is
one of the finest community centers
; to lie found anywhere.
I (ireater even than this is the spir-
I it of tolerance so manifested. Any
! community that prepares such a
splendid playground where its boys
and girls may enjoy supervised
sports at home, instead of frowning
°" S r h ^ SireS Pre - Sent , in u n " rr " a l Holiywoodtoday to try it" again!
you M who are going elsewhere, if. Fred LaNovel, former Albany
ssarv. to satisfu trip npsirp. us . . . . •
Senator Russell asserted that tne
NRA decision did not end social re
sponsibility for the nation, but
merely transferred it from the ad
ministration to employers and labor.
I Denouncing “public cure-alls amt
Utopian promises,” Russell said
charges that “the constitution is to
be scrapped and the American sys
tem of government junked” were
'■fallacious and ridiculous.”
i He predicted the enactment by
congress of “asne” legislation to
regulate business.
MOVIE DAREDEVIL WHO LOST
NERVE TRIES COMEBACK
I Albany, Ga., June 5.—An early-
day movie stunt man who quin nis
hazardous business because he said,
“i lost my nerve, was en route tu
according to
word received Saturday by M. L.
Fleetwood, president or the organi-
I zation. He was informed of this
addition to the program schedule by
Dr. 1. S. Ingram, who is chairman
of the general arrangements com
mittee 01 Carrollton.
Rev. H. O. F'owler, pastor of the
Manchhester Baptist church preached
at the First Baptist church of Co
lumbus Sunday morning last at the
fl o’clock hour in the absence
of the pastor, Dr. F’red S. I’or.er,
who is conducting a revival meeting
| in Mr. Fowler’s church in Manches-
Tse District Sunday School and ter. Rev. Mr. F'owler is a former
B. Y. P. U. convention, which is an greatly beloved pastor of the Uuner
auxiliary to the Columbus Missionary and Reynolds Baptist churches.
Baptist Association, met in Colum- I Casting up the to tal of working
bus at Beulah Baptist church begin- | hourg re(iuire d by skilled und mi
ning last night and will close F riday , sk j|| ei | ] a bor in the building of the
frauds” in the repeal referendum in j
Associa- Chatham (Savannah) county on May
granted by Governor Talmadge.
From 40 acres, K: ox Gholston,
prominent Madison county farmer, |
threshed 2,543 bushels of oats this
season, an average yield of 63 1-2
bushels per acre, by actual weighing
the Madison County farmer said. I
Special Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Harllee Branch, former Atlanta
newspaperman, will be the feature
speaker on the program of the Geor
gia Rural Le.ter Carriers’ Associa
tion, which meets in Valdosta July
22 and 23.
night, Jur.e 14.
I new superliner Normandie, which
Miss Gladys Bolt, head of primary . steamed into New York harbor June
work at Thomaston high school, Ha. 3rd on her maiden voyage, it n an-
been secured to give a special course nounced that 14 dillerei.t classihca-
in Methods Appropriate to the New , tions of tollers were at then alioteu
Curriculum during the summer see- , tasks 2,o(X),000 hours. Computed -*
sion at Georgia Southwestern col
lege at Americus.
Announcement has been made or
the opening of the Talbotton The
ater at Talbotton June 14, in the
Spivey building, which has been re
modeled. It is equipped with the lat
est moving picture machine. J. L.
Taylor is proprietor.
terms of years, this amounts to b85
or nearly seven centuries, if one
| man had done the whole job.
About sixty applicants for licenses
to practice medicine in Georgia ap
peared at the State Capitol in At
lanta for examination Tuesday, and
a number of others were examined
in Augusta at the same time, ac
cording to Dr. H. G. Huey, of Hom-
The Cordele Turpentine Company I erville, president of the State Board
“In the issue of April 25,” Linder
said, “we carried an article se.ting
15. He has informed the solichitor forth three planks of the democratic
general and the grand jury he would
be glad to give them information
concerning the way in which the
eleo ion was conducted.
Official returns show that Chatham
county voted wet by a margin ot
more thai'. 10 to 1 in- the election.
The lawyer said the names of
several Savannahians who did not go
to the polls were voted by other
people.
platform of 1932. In that article we
showed the president had carried
out the principal planks of the so
cialist and republican parties.” ,
“We had a notice of the objections 1
of the post office department and
since that time we haven’t published
anything prohibited under the act
oi June 19\)0, which classifies period
icals coining under the second class
mailing privileges.”
The order from Eilenberger, how
ever said, issues of the Bulletin on
May 16, May 23and May 30, “still
contains a considerable amount ot
_ | matter not coming within the pur-
Aitlanta, June 7.—The Public Serv- 1 view of the law lor publication is
sued by state departments of agri-
POWER RATES ORDERED
CUT EFECTIVE JUNE 15
necessary, to satisfy the desire, is
indeed wise.
The fact that play is suspended
during church hours and resumed
afterwards is proof that your com
munity leaders are following the
program of building physically, men
ially, morally and spiritually. 1
know of r.o finer way to build good
citizens. Reynolds sets an example
that all Georgia towns and cities
should emulate.
Again thanking you, I am,
Sincerely yours,
J. A. REDFERN.
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ice Commission Friday ordered
rate reduction to save commercial culture,”
was destroyed by fire Friday. The
fire started about noon when rosin
exploded igniting the building and
destroying approximately 600 bar
rels. It was estimated that the loss
was $7,000 or $8,000.
With dynamic appeal one moment,
straight from the shoulder facts the
medical examiners. Dr. Huey
said that the examination had oeen
users of Georgia Power Company |
electricity estimated at $390,000 an
nually.
The reduct ion goes into effect on I
Jure 15.
Chairman Jud Wilhoit of the Com- I
mission said the reduction “puts I
commercial power users in the ter- |
ritory served by ithe Georgia Power
Company on a narity with the lowest |
rates east of the Rockies.”
Domestic rates of the Georgia
Power Company already have been
reduced.
OVER HALF OF RANSOM j
MONEY IN UTAH KIDNAPING
Eilenberger stated the law required
that publications of state depart
ments of agriculture "shall be pub
lished only for the .purpose of fur
thering objects of such departments”
if they are to receive the privilege of
second class mailing rates. His let
ter said the Market Bulletin “is no
longer entitled to be mailed at sec
ond class rates.”
If the second class privilege is
revoked the department would have
to pay 12c per pound compared to
the present cost of one and one-naif
cents per pound. Approximately
100,000 copies of the Bulletin are
mailed weekly at a cost of about one
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has the right to secede from the un- |
ion.”
Eilenlberger’s order Monday said
of the War Between ithe States, he ■
was a prosperous young mar. with a
happy lamny, consisting of his wife j
and two small sons. He had bee
reared in wealth and luxury and
given the best educational advantages j Law, one of the first women flyers,
times. He also had rare liter- The son- of English circus per-
garage owner, is the man. Although
he prided himself on the fact that
he had taken his own advice—“When
you lose your nerve it’s time to quit”
—he has signed a coni.ract to stage
a come-back and do some more
stunts.
The reasons for his return to Hol
lywood, he says are two: Financial
reverses and an unsatisfied appetite
for thrills.
LaNovel says he first broke into
the movies by doubling for Pearl
White in the early movie serial,
“The Perils of Pauline.” The “perils,’
he says, were mostly his.
Some time after this he married,
moved to Albany and opened a gar
age.
He claims to be “first” in several
respects: F'irst movie stun, man;
first to crash a plane for a picture;
first man intentionally to drive an
automobile over a cliff; and risk to
fly a balloon out of sight of the hu
man eye.
LaNovel was a partner of Kutn
CASE HAS BEEN RECOVERED j twentieth of a cent per copy.
Salt Lake City, Utah, June 11.—A
cuche of $90,700 of the $200,000 ran-
som paid for the release of 9-year- . . . .
divided because of the location of old George Weyerhaeuser, of Taco- P a rtment °f Agriculture Tuesday’ is-
the medical college of the Universi- - * "" c —
i Linder Process Tax Charge Brings
Attack in Capital
I Washington, June 11.—The De-
ty of Georgia in Augusta.
Railroads operating in Georgia
Monday presented the Georgia Pub
lic Service Commission with a de-
next ar.d throughout his sermon a ir.and for an increase of from 7 to 10
rare wit, Gipsy Smith opened revival
services Sunday in Atlanta at the
city auditorium with nearly 6,000
persons in attendance.
Over 11,000 Georgia youths will
be under government supervision in
either military training camps or
Civilian Conservation Corp camps ordered recently by
this summer for periods ranging commission,
from 15 days to six months accord
ing to announcement Monday.
per cent in freight rates between
points in this state. The demand was
backed by a rule nisi issued by tne
Interstate Commerce Commission, re
quiring the Georgia commission to
show cause why the increased rates
should not be granted so as to con
form to increases in interstate rates
the interstate
ma, was found Tuesday in historic s “ ed 4 an official denial that Secretary
Immigration Pass, near Salt Lake °f Agriculture Wallace “had any-
City, while hundreds of officers to do with the Post Office
scoured the west to make the final ” e R?/? m . en t s or< ^ er designed to stop
roundup of suspects in the kidnap- , Ll 10 , lca ' comment” in 1 he Georgia
ing of the lumber heir. | Market Bulletin by its eintor, lom
The money—wrapped in black oil , . , , , ,
cloth and a gunny sack—had been! The ‘lepartmet also pooh-poohed
buried in a canyon about five miles re P c,rts attributed to Linder that me
from Salt Lake City. processing tax is costing Georgia
It brought the total of the more than her farmers received in
benefits and higher prices.
by
Two Wilcox county men entered
pleas of guilty to a charge ot
shooting doves over a baited field
when arraigned in U. S. District
court before Judge Bascont Deav-
ers Monday morning, and were giv
en sentences of 12 months on proba
tion.
Georgia Millitary College at Mil-
ledgeville has been named an honor
school by the War Department and
selected as one of the distinguished
military schools of the country for
the third consecutive year, Col. Joe
H. Jenkins, president, was advised
Saturday.
Wright Sherod, 55, filling station -
operator, was shot and killed about j knowledged beauty.
4 o’clock Saturday afternoon eight This possible outing is the out-
miles from Millen on the Millen- come of a “bathing beauty” contest
Statesboro highway, and Ben Drew, held at Savannah Beach ' Saturday
35, nephew of the dead man, is hem afternoon, under the auspices of the
Restoration of the old 4 per cent
interest rate on PWA loans to states
and communities under the 4,000
million dollar work program was an
nounced Monday* from Washington
by Secretary lekes, who
change was designed to attract pri
vate capital to finonce the expendi
tures not donated by the Federal
Government. The rate was lowered
to 3 per cent on May 24, at the
same time the federal donation on
non-federal PWA projects was rais
ed from 30 to 45 per cent.
“snatch” money accounted for
government men to $116,000.
SCHOOLBOY’S HARROWING
EXPERIENCE WITH SNAKE
FAILS TO STOP HIS SPEECH
Georgia has received $20,217,669 in
benefits to her farmers since the
program was initiated, officials stat
ed.
ary gifts, being the author of a num
her of beautiful poems. Yot he re
sponded to the first call forvolnteers
in Marion by joining the Buena
Vista guards as a private on April
15, 1861. He resigned his lucrative
fiosition as solicitor-general of one
of the largest circuits of the state,
puit his slaves and plantation under
he control of an overseer, left his
devoted family ard gallantly went
forth to endure a private’s hard Iasi
of serving on picket, constructing
fortifications, digging trenches, mak
ing long weary marches ar.d facing
the firing cannon.
He wrote his most celebrated poem
“All Quiet Along the Potomac To
night, ’ in August, 1861, when his
regiment was s.ationed at Center
ville, Virginia, on the banks of the
Potomac. The Northern troops occu
pied camps nearby. The advanced
guards of the two armies frequently
fired upon each other without warn
ing. So it was necessary that picket s
be constantly on the watch. It was
While Mr. Oliver was serving on 'tnis
lonely duty with “footsteps lagging
and weary” and thinking of his tam-
ily in Buena Vista that he composed
this poetic gem. I have been told
that he put these verses 0 npaper
one evening sitting by the camfire
ii less than an hour. My great: uncle
Albert G. Ashmore, shared the tent
formers, LaNovel says he was bom
and reared under the canvas top,
His four brothers, allaerial per
formers, were killed simultaneouslv
when ligtning struck the rigging on
which thehy were swinging.
Althouh he says he was received
27 broken bones in executing is
starts, LaNivel is afatalist.
“If y*ou can walk away from a
crash, you’re all right,” he sa>%
“If you can’t walk away, you don’t
know anything about it.”
Mrs. Erma Jean Autry, comely
Statesboro young lady will have an
ocean trip which will carry her to
New York for a three-day’s stay, all
expenses paid, as a result of her ae-
Greensboro, Ga., June 8.—Fra-ier
Copelain, 15-year-old Greshamville
, boy, dad not let a 1 arrowing cx-
j perience with u snake interfere w.*,n 9on sa >' her people actually
I the delivery of his sultaiory address “ f ,Vlic ,QV
I the other day.
! Suddenly he felt something around
him and his hand struck something
! cold. Turning his head, he saw the
, head of a huge six-foot coachwhip
snake nestling on his shoulder. He
reached in his pocket for his knife,
which he had to open with his teeth.
' Terrified, but calm, he proceeded to
sever the snake’s head from the
body, thus releasing himself from its
coils.
“She has paid 35 millions in pro- 1 with him when he wrote this poem.
“The two on the low trundle lei;'
were his sons, Hugh F., and James
H. Oliver. Mrs. Oliver taught a*small
school in her home in Buena Vista
during the war. She lived in Marion
several years after the war and is
remembered by some of the peonle
here.
cessing taxes, of which about 30
milions was collected from textile
mills.
“But because Georgia is blessed
with a great many mills is no rea-
all of this tax.
“Georgia textiles and other prod-
ucts bearing this tax are sold ■ Hugh F. Oliver was a brillant Bap-
throughout the nation. ! Hist minister and also a poet. He re-
"It is the department’s belief tha* turned to Buena Vista in 1007 and
Georgia farmers have received far nerved as pastor of the Bants
more in higher prices and benefit church in Buena Vista for three
payments than her citizens have years,
paid in these taxes designed to grve |
the farmers parity prices."
Meanwhile, Post Office Depart- !
ment officials indicated t heir de-
Three hundred acres of land on
Little River, on top of Lookout
Mountain just beyond Cloudland in
Chattooga county, have been donated
termination to bar the state market
j publication from the mails if it con-
! tnues to print alleged political mat
ters.
i In the future, according to Nelson
B. Wentzell, chief of the depart
ment’s classification division, the
• ,, T * . , * ., • 1 _ , • - - — —, -- — to the government for the purpose of Georgia Bulletin must coi fine itself
«on h witb n «^ S hnotiL 3 ' Sheriff 0 ?^" I Sa '’ a t ,nah Chamber of Commerce, establishing a government park, and to agricultural news or pay the hieh-
tion with the shooting, Sheriff John- and in whichh entrants from many work on the project is expected to be er third-riass postage for publica-
*° n ■*“’ * | adjoining counties competed. ■ started at once. tion of miscellaneous matter.
ft A \
James H. Oliver, graduated from
1 the National Naval Academy at An-
I napolis and was later promoted to
'the rank of rear admiral. In 1907
he was appointed by President Wil-
son to the office of governor or the
Virgin Islands which were pur-
I chased from Denmark to be used as
I a naval base.
M. Broadus Edwards, 61, retired
business man and member of the
Richmond County commission, died
in Augusta Monday.
DRJNK
GEORGIA-ALABAMA
COCA COLA BOTTLING CO.
Manchester, Ga-