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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 26, li-SS.
CVS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
An allotment of $451,703 of federal
funds to be used by the WPA in
Georgia was approved by President
Roosevelt yesterday.
As an evidence of bountiful har
vest and return of prosperity, 28
Georgia counties are sponsoring ex
hibits of their products this fall.
More than 5,000 people who have
been on relief rolls ure now picking
cotton and engaging in other harvest
activities, making a total of 20,(MM)
people who have been removed from
the rolls in Georgia recently, accord
ing to Miss Gay B. She.pperson,
Works Progress Administrator.
A camp meeting will be held at St.
James Methodist church near Mar-
shallville beginnning Sept. 25. The
meeting will continue for 10 days.
W. E. Page, collector of internal
revenue, was released Sunday from
St. Joseph’s infirmary, Atlanta,
where he had been ill for the past
two weeks.
A big barbecue, with President
Mike Renton of the Southeastern
Fair Association us host, is one of
many features planned for the enter
tainment of Georgia editors and their
families on Press Day ut the Fair,
Friday, October 4. The Fair opens on
Sept. 2!) and continues thru Oct. 6.
The Eladule estate of about 1,500
acres is to be auctioned in November
in connection with the winding up ol
the estate of the late John It. Mercer,
of Dawson.
On account of the high cost of side
meat, pork and 1 beef hundreds have
resorted to old hens as a substitute in
the Indian Springs section. Hens that
have eked u living in ranging back
yards have gone into pressure cook
ers and come out as tender as butter
The time limit for candidates to
enter the race for tax commissioner
Crisp county, cuused by the resigna
tion of C. O. Perry, expired Friday
night. Nine candidates seek to be
elected to the term which ends Dec.
31, 1936. The candidates ure J M.
Hunt, Joe Briscoe, W. P. Heard, U.
V. Whipple, Jr., John Hughes, Jake
Shepard, G. R, Wilkes, John Crump-
lur, Sr., and A M. Bell. The special
election will be held on Oct. 1.
EDITOR IS FETED ON HIS
I SEVENTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY
! Tlanta, Sept. 20.—Clark Howell,
Sr.,editor of the Atlanta Constitution
was honored at a dinner bust night
(riven by Richard W. Courts, Jr., At
lanta business man. The occasion was
Mr. Howell’s 72nd birthday.
More fhan loo prominent business ,
and civic leaders attended. \
I Tribute was paid the editor by sev-
A verdict in favor of the plaintiff, | erH i speakers.
PAVING IS WANTED
IN TALBOT, MARION
The Antioch Baptist church, lo
cated on the Barnesville-Yates ville
highway in Upson county, will cele
brate its one hundredth anniversary
next Sunday.
Upward of 1710 persons met death
on the nation’s highways in traffic
accidents during the week-end, par
tial reports by the Associated Press
from 25 states showed.
Linton Stephens Ingram, one of the
best known negro educators in the
state, died at his home at Sparta
Sunday after celebrating his 80th
birthday a few days ago.
Honoring the memory of LaFayette
Lanier, Jr., textile mill official who
was friend of rich man and poor man
alike, a memorial will be unveiled to
day near West Point, Ga.
The Georgia Piano ensemble, the
first state organization of its kind on
record, Mabelle S. Wall, chairman,
will give the initial concert on Oct. 4
at the Atlanta auditorium.
Revised figures issued Saturday by
Harry L. Hopkins, WPA, showed
that 434,218 persons have been em-
plyed in the $4,090,000,000 work pro
gram outside of CCC camps.
Government aid will be asked for
erecting a building for the Dixie col
lege at Valdosta, an institution of
higher learning for negroes which is
headed by Dr. Clinton Smith.
The new Methodist church at Box
Si «ix r s is now completed, and serv
ices will be held in the new building
Sunday,, it was announced yesterday
by Rev. J. M. Yarbrough, the pastor.
The young people of Southwest
Georgia will engage in a quarterly
rally next Sunday p. m. at Dawson,
according to announcement by J. D.
Parker of Edison, regional president.
Young people from all over South
west Georgia are invited to be pres
ent.
Mrs. Murtha Sowell, was returned
Saturday in a case attracting wide
spread interest in Henry county. The
case grew out of a suit against the
Southern Railway and others in
which Mrs. Sowell sought to recovet
$50,000 dumages for the death of ner
husband, Ike Sowell, who was killed
by a southbound train on the after
noon of Aug. 17, 1934. The amount
of damage was fixed at $4,500, it
was Teamed.
Mr. Howell, editor of The Consti
tution since 1897 was Georgia Demo
cratic national committeeman for 26
: years.
William Richard Laster, 16, was
instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of his own shotgun while
hunting near the farm of his parents
nine miles from Villanow, Ga., Satur
day. Laster stepped over a log and
the hammer of his gun scraped a
knot on the log and discharged.
W.Perry Dozier, 42, assistant su
perintendent of the Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company stores in
southwest Georgia, was fatally in
jured Thursday night in an automo
bile wreck here MaRae. Dozier's car
and another machine collided just
outside of the MaRae city limits.
Five persons and 14 race horses
were killed when a fast Chicago and
Eastern Illinois passenger train hit
an automobile driven by Mrs. Eld
Dammann, farm woman, at a grade
crossing near Hillsboro, 111. Mrs.
Dammann and part of the train crew
were killed and seven passengers
were injured.
Guards at the ‘‘Little White House”
President Roosevelt’s vacation home
at Warm Springs, says that during a
period of two and one-half years, an
average of 20,000 visitors per month
sign the register at the house. The
register contains names of signers
from each of the 48 states and from
47 otfibr nations.
Lambdin Kay, general manager of
the Atlanta Journal’s radio WSB and
widely known throughout Georgia
and the southeast, has been appoint
ed chairman of the Radio Industry’s
Foundation for Program Awards.
The commitee, headed by Mr. Kay,
means to radio what the Pulitzer
Prize committee means to literature.
It has for its object creation and dis
tribution of suitable rewards for ra
dio stations performing distinguished
service in their field.
Three employes of the defunct
American Rond and Share Corpora
tion of Atlanta will go on trial before
Judge Marvin Underwood in Federal
District court Monday, Oct. 14. They
wilbe tried on charges of using the
mail to defraud in connection with
the collapse of the million dollar cor
poration. The men now at liberty on
bond, are Robert Lee, attorney for
the corporation; W. A. Smith, sales
man, and John C. Ingram, secretary
and treasurer of the defunct business.
Wm. H. Beck, Jr., of Griffin, twice
national vice president of the Na
tional Exchange Club, was elevated to
the presidency yesterday at the clos
ing session of the 19th convention at
Dallas, Tfex.
Announcing his determination to
end drunken driving in Maocn "if
stiff penalties will do it,” Judge Earl
W. Butler, in city court Monday fined
n truck driver $509, or a jail term of
12 months.
A family Bible more than 100
years old, which Dr. Avery Dimmock,
Atlanta phys'nian, sought for many
years, was recently found by him in
an antique shop in Atlanta. He re
covered it by -sheer luck.
The largest audience ever assembl
ed in Georgia is expected to welcome
President Roosevelt when he speaks
at Grant Field in Atlanta during the
Thanksgiving holidays, which he cus
tomarily spends at Warm Springs.
Seven directors of the Bank ot
Toccoa, who signed a note for $24,464
to another director, who had advanc
ed money to take up some doubtful
assets of the bank, were held per
sonally liable for the balance of ap
proximately $12,000 due on the note
in a ruling of the Georgia Supreme
Court Saturday.*
W. C. Twitty, vice president of the
Hand Trading Company at Pelham,
pioneer of that section and promin
ently identifield in business circles
through the state, died Sunday morn
ing after an illness of several months
Rev. S. T. Wingfield, who has serv
ed as pastor of the Second Baptist
church at Macon less than a year,
will retire from the ministry after
next Sunday,he announced at a meet
ing of the Baptist Ministers Associ-
tion Monday morning. He gave ill
health as the reason for his decision.
CRISP CHAMBER LAUDED
Convicted of making threats on
President Roosevelt’s life, George A.
Boston, 71 year old Spanish-Ameri-
can War veteran of Johnson City,
Tenn., was given a three-year proba
tionary sentence. Witnesses testified
he threatened "to riddle every coach
with bullets” if the President’s train
ever came through Johnson City.
The total value of the 1935 cot
ton crop in Georgia will be approxi
mately 80 million dollars, economists
of the College of Agriculture esti
mate. This is about the same as last
year, although the return per bale
will be somewhat lower, it was stated,
since the current estimate of produc
tion this year is about 60,000 bales
greater than the ginnings in 1934.
Mrs. J. W. Cunyus, 80 years old,
of Decatur, died Sunday morning in
Emory University hospital from in
juries suffered in an automobile acci
dent Saturday. Her death was the
33rd traffic fatality in Atlanta this
year.
Revising a previous announcement,
the treasury department in Washing
ton said that Worsham Bros., of
Knoxville, Tenn., was low bidder on
constructing a new post office build
ing at Dublin, Ga., the firm bid
$126,237.
Governor Dave Sholtz of ETorida
is scheduled to make one of the prin
cipal addresses at the second annual
convention of the Georgia Affiliated
Women’s Democratic club at Colum
bus Nov. 12-14.
People have short memories and
those who were clamoring for Presi
dent Roosevelt to do something, were
now criticizing him because he did do
something, Marvin O’Neal, Jr., at
torney and prominent leader of the
Young Men’s Democratic Club, of
Savannah, said in an interesting ad
dress Friday before the Lions Club
in that city.
The new $55,000 high school build
ing for Douglas county and for
wnich bonds were voted at Douglas-
ville last- week, has given impetus to
several other projects. The town of
Douglasville has made application
for extension to waterworks and sew
erage systems in the sum of $65,000
and proposed street paving in the
amount of $140,000.
Doss Weaver, 61, whose body was
found in the woods near his home in
Coffee county yesterday, was report- , .—•*■>*» -
ed to have been killed by his bull, President Roose\elt on the
which he had gone into the woods to j tl' e presidential address
find. The bull had been missing two
weeks.
J. D. Ashley, mayor of Valdosta
and president of the Georgia Associa
tion of Mayors has proclaimed a holi
day in Valdosta on the date of the
address of President Roosevelt in At
lanta in November. Mayor Ashley is
also planning to head a Valdosta
motorcade to visit Atlanta and greet
occasion
Wood’s theater of Cordele donated
its net proceeds from all perform
ances taken in Friday afternoon and
night for the charity school book
fund of the Cordele schools. A nice ' held at tne state capitol.
sum was turned over to Supt D. H. comibie, with a record of
Standard it was said.
Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of
Druid Hills Baptist church of At
lanta, and widely known Baptist
leader, will open a week's revival
service at Vineville Baptist church
Macon, next Sunday. Dr. J. E. Sam
mons is pastor of the church.
The age limit for the junior di
vision of the CCC has been broaden
ed so that the October enlistments
will include young men from 17 to
28 instead of from 18 to 25 years of
age as heretofore, according to in
formation received from Washington
by the F’EBA.
The South Georgia town of Adel
will be host to Georgia’s Confederate
veterans at their reunion, Oct. 8-10.
Mayor J. J. Parish, of Adel, extended
invitation for the gathering to
Dr. T. F. Abercombie, director ot
the State Department of Public
Health, was re-elected Wednesday,
Sept. 18, to serve his fourth term in
this position by the State Board ol
health at its semi-annual meeting
Dr. Aber-
18 years
service behind him, will begin his
fourth term of six years at the ex
piration of his present term.
Cordele, Ga., Sept. 20.—The Crisp
County Chamber of commerce has
already received several communica
tions front industries, Chambers of
Commerce and individuals in many
sections complimenting the local or
ganizations upon issuing such an at
tractive and practical industrial pro
spectus.
WOMAN SWINDLED
Calhoun, Ga., SSept. 24.—A travel
ing band of fortune tellers was sou
ght today, Police Chief H. E. Millet
announced, for swindling a local wo
man out of $2,800.
Chief Mjller said several members
of the band went to the woman’s
hriuse yesterday, found she was ill.
and “talimed they could cure her.”
Somehow they got hold of the
money and left,’ he said.
ANDREW COLLEGE N
OPENS AT CUTHBERT
ABIT NIX CHOSEN
HEAD OF GEORGIA
RED CROSS DRIVE
Atlanta, Sept. 21.—Announcement
was made today from the National
Headquarters of the American Red
Cross, Washington, A-bit Nix, Athens
Ga., has been selected to be chairman
of the Georgia State-Wide Red Cross
Roll Call Speakers’ Bureau.
Mr. Nix will preside and make the
principal addresses at the following
Red Cross Regional Conferences:
Gainesville, September 25; Warm
Springs, September 27; Macon, Sep
tember 30; Augusta, October 4.
GEORGE IS OPPOSED
TO CHANGE OF LAW
Americus, Ga., Sept. 20.—Declar
ing that “whatever my party may
declare I will not vote for a change
in the constitution,” Sen. Walter F.
George (D. Ga.) addressed the
Americus Kiwanis club today on. The
American Constitution.
The senator added that he had no
serious apprehension of a change be
ing made in the constitution.
He said it was “deplorable that
the constitution will be an issue in
1936 but for my part I will do noth
ing to make possible the election ol
a Republican president in 1936.”
Talbotton, Ga., Sept. 20.—Civic
leaders of Talbot and Marion
counties have organized a movement
to get route 41 paved through lal-
bot and Marion counties.
The route runs trom Moreland, just
south of Newnan to Greenville, Man
chester, Tulbotton, Geneva, Buena
Vista and Preston, where it connects
with route 28, between Richland and
Americus. Route 41 connects with
AMERICUS CHOSEN
FOR CRATE PLAN
Americus, Ga., Sept. 24 —l
arrangements were completed .
for the erection here of a crate
veneer factory thut will mv/
ployment to between two and th
hundred persons.
The new plant will be located
the general aviation warehouse
----- former Souther field, and nlnn
route 22 at Geneva. Route 22 is now i n •. A
paved in
at Geneva. Route t* is now t , ate beginning media e ,
this section from j work necessary to prepare th,* v
to Geneva. Paving also runs norfh :
from Geneva to Tulbotton on route
41.
It is a stretch between Man
chester and Talbotton, and another
gap between Geneva and Buena Vis
ta and the south border of Marion
county the civicleaders are seeking
to get improved.
YOUNG HARRIS’
WIDOW BURIED
occupancy
supplies
used
GOVERNOR GLAD
ROOSEVELT IS
TO VISIT STATE
Atlanta, Sept. 23.—Governor Tal-
madge joined the Georgia delegation
today in inviting President Roosevelt
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 21.—Services
for Mrs. Frances Crosby Harris, 93
widow of the late Young Harris, who
died at her home late Friday after
noon, were held this afternoon from
her residence.
Interment was in the family burial
plot in Geneva, Ga. She had been ill
since February. She were known as
Columbus’ oldest mother.’
Born in Talbot county on February
11, 1842, she was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. William Terrell
Cosby. She is survived by two dau
ghters, Mrs. Maud Ware and Mrs.
Georgia W. Maddox; one brother,
John Cosby, all of Columbus; one
one sister, Mrs. F. M. Burnett, of At
lanta; 14 grandchildren, 24 great
grandchildren and numerous nieces
and nephews to the third generation.
Six grandsons will serve as active
pallbearers.
necessary to prepare the
building for industrial
Dayton Veneer and Lumbe.
pany, which operates a similar
cern at Dayton, Tenn.
Proximity to huge
swamp timber such as
mffking crates motivated manag,
of the concern in their decision
locate here. A contract between ,i
board of county commissione r-
Sumter county and the Dayton Co „
cern provides for early occun-J
of the property and the removal
about 10O convicts now quarters
there to another location. The lea
contract under which the D avt
concern will go into control 0 f
property includes an option to , )u j
chase which it is expected will
executed within a short time.
Ten or twelve white familie.-, man
agers of the concern said today, u
be brought here to assisit in mjera
tion of the plant, while most of t
laibor employed will be negroes, a
the company plans to operate'
year round.
THREE INJURED IN
ELLAVILLE WREl
YEARLING KILLED
TO RECOVER BILL
EATEN BY ANIMAL
Sandersville, Ga., Sept. 19.—Geo. D.
Jones of Warthen, 19 miles from
Sandersville, tells this story of a
yearling calf, a vest, and a five-dollar
bill:
While Jones was recently supply- ___ =
„ ing beeves for one of the Sandersville j i m = pa ct caused" cuts and bruised
whose policies lie has criticized bit- markets, he was approached by a ne- flying glass to Mr, Brown his w
terly, to Georgia for an address this gro friend who was anxious to sell a an( i 12-year-old son Thev Viol on,
I yearling. When he told the negro ->- J - . . . ’ car
the j that he did not need the beef that day
Ellaville, Ga., Sept. 24.—Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Brown and son,
Montezuma, were painfully injuri
in an automobile accident ’ just i
side the Ellaville city limits about
o’clock Sunday evening, as they
returning home from a spend
day visit with relatives in Columbui
Mr. Brown, who was driving
car, saw another car approaching
! filled with negroes, at an alleged!
fast speed, going toward Ituen
Vista, and is said to have swerve
his car into a ditch to avoid a colli
ion. Before he could get entirely
to the edge of the road, the oiicom
ing car hit his car broadside.
fall.
‘We are delighted to have
Pressident come to Georgia. People the darkey repeate his desire to have
are always glad for him to come be- the yearling killed at once,
cause of his exalted office and be- j The colored man replied to ques-
cause of the affection they have for ti 0 ning that he had left his vest hang-
him,” the governor said. He continu- j n( , ; n the sun, and that the yearling
ed:
“I’m glad to join in with the Geor
gia delegation in inviting him.”
NEGRO EDUCATOR
DIES AT SPARTA
Sparta, Ga., Sept. 19.—Linton Step
hens Ingraham, one of the best
known negro educators in the state,
died at his home here this morning
ad chewed and swallowed the vest,
which had a five-dollar bill in the
pocket. He agreed to sell the yearl
ing for five dollars.
Thereupon the calf was slaughter
ed, and after careful examination,
the money was recovered, with only
one end of the note having been
chewed off. Now the darkey has two
five-dollar bills.
after celebrating his 80th birthday a .TIFTON GAZETTE CLEBRATES
1 21st YEAR OF EXISTANCE
few days ago
Prof. Ingraham had been a teach-1
er for 60 years and at the time of I Tifton. Sept. 14.—The Tifton Daily
his death was active head of the Gazette, a “war baby” was 21 years
Sparta Agricultural and \ Industrial 0 ld Saturday and its editor, John G.
Institute, which he established here Herring, in a reminiscent mood, said
25 years ago. He had built up a “the daily is just grown, but it has
large school plant here with funds se en a lot of life.”
ned to a local drug store for treat
ment and their wounds were sewei
up.
It is understood warrants hav
been sworn out by Mr. Brown fo
the two negro youths who escaped
PROMINENT LETTER CARRIER
IS ILL IN SCHLEY COUNT
donated by
friends.
northern and eastern ■ l n an editorial headed “Now we’re
j Grown,” the Gazette said the first is-
He was educated by the late Alex- sue of the daily edition was issued on
ander H. Stephens.
Cuthbert, Ga., Sept. 21.—Andrew
College opened its session the past
week with a splendid enrollment. Dr.
S. C. OlifT, president of the college,
presided at the opening exercises and
welcomed the students and t acuity.
Greetings were extended by the Rev.
M. L. Lawson, representing the Bap
tist Church; the Revy. W. M. Ha-
wood, of the Methodists; R. L. Moyc
of the Presbyterians; Henry Howell,
of the Episcopalians.
FARM SUPERVISOR
IS REPUTED ILL
Ellaville, Ga., Sept. 23.—H. S.
Munroe, farm supervisor for Schley,
Marion and Taylor counties, is ill at
his home near here, from a threaten
ed attack pf appendicitis. Mr. Munro
taught in Ellaville high school for a
year, after which he accepted a posi
tion with the rehabilitation depart
ment of the government. Recently, he
was appointed farm supervisor for
three counties. It is expected that he
will be able to be out within a few
day£.
COTTON BALE — AGE 43
FARMERS REFUSES
TO PART WITH IT
Quarterly dividends of $2,337,863,
are to be mailed stockholders in
Georgia corporations October 1. This
sum is exclusive of dividends to be
paid by the Georgia Power Company,
the Bibb Manufacturing company and
the Citizens and Southerny National
bank. The Coca Cola company is to
distribute the largest amount,
quarterly dividend of $2 per share on
1,000,900 shares of stocks of record
Sept. 12
“There was no argument. My hus
band pulled out a .pistol and shot me
and then shot himself.” With those
words, Mrs. Joe Lanney, of Griffin,
described a double shooting that Fri
day put the Laneys in Strickland
Memorial hospital—she in serious
General J. P Hardy, commander of I condition with'a bullet wound in her
the Georgia division and the invita-1 abdomen, and he less seriously hurt
despite two wounds in his side.
tion was accepted.
Washington, Ga., Sept. 21.—Some
Georgia farmers 18 years ago re
fused to sell their cotton for 43 cents,
but M. T. Paradise is perhaps the
only cotton producer in the state who
has held a bale of the fleecy staple
for.43. I'M)
It was back in 1892 when Mr. Para
dise hauled two bales 15 miles to the
Washington market,exposing for.sale
his entire crop for his first year at
farming.
Four cents a pound was the highest
bid. The producer sold one bale for
$21.40, but was not pleased. Rather
the young Lincoln county farmer was
vexed, and said:
“By golly, before I take u cents
for this other bale, I’ll haul her back
home and let 'er rot.”
Back to the farm went the second
bale. It is still there.
After 43 years “Cap” Paradise, ha:
no desire to sell the half of his first
farm yield. In 1919, when cotton .was
GUILTY AT 104 ON
LIQUOR, CHARGE
Sept. 11, 1914. as the “World War
was just getting under way. Then
was great interest in news from the
a war-front, and the late editor, Jno.
; Lewis Herring, decided to launch an
Ellaville, Ga., Sept. 21.—C. C. Wl
secretary and treasurer of the stat
Rural Letter Carrier’s association,
ill at his country home near Ellavill
Mr. Wall is editor of a column j>u
lished each week in the Atlanta Jou
nal and Butler Herald in the inter
of the Georgia R. L. C. He recent!
attended the national R. L. C.
vention in Boston, Mass., having gon
as a delegate from this district
Wall is sdso prominent in Masoni
and Knights j>f Pythias work
Georgia.
PETITION FOR LETTERS
OF ADMINISTRATION
_ „ _ k afternoon daily newspaper in Tifton
Thomasville, Ga., Sept. 20.—To "be to supp )y the people of that section
in possession of a few gallons of w jth the news on the day it happen-
whiskey or other stimulants is now
considered nothing out of the ordin-
but
“The Daily Gazette was the off-
arj in many communities, but to spring of the Titon Gazette, weekly
boast an age of 104 years and be the publication, which was in its 26th
possessor of 55 gallons of whisky in y ear a t the time publication of the
supposedly dry county belor»gs ex- Daily Gazette was begun,
clusively to Frank Taylor, a negro “Editor Herring had some exper-
living a few miles from Thomasville ence with daily newspapers, work-
who was sentenced in cit court here ; nK f or a f ew months each with the
weanesuay. Tampa Tribune and Savannah Morn-
The negro, who claims to have been ing . News . H e edited the Daily Ga-
born in 1831, and whose age is fairly Z ette from its beginning until his
well authenticated by other aid ( j eat h Oct. 6. 1923. Since his death
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
L. E. Peterman having in prope
form applied to me for permanea
letters of administration on the i
tate of J. B. Peteman, late of
county, this is to cite all and ship
lar, the creditors and next of kin o
said deceased to be and appear
my office within the time allowed 1,
law and show cause, if any they can
why permanent administration shout
not be granted to said petitioner
the said deceased’s estate.
Witness my hand and official :
nature this 9th day of Septembe
1935.
L. T. PEED, Ordinary.
No. 2
From
Page 3
i ment shall be made after July
citizens, pleaded guilty to possession publication has been continued by j isiag" provided suevTn^rTnn hatful
^ h ^,“ U ^ aUS ? of h ! s his sons.”
• Som r ° f the headlines of the first i jnlhe *1936 wttoiT arijustn^nT'
isue of the Daily Gazette said: I —■ J
and his inability to work and not
not wishing to imposed a burden on
the county convict department,
Judge B. B. Earle gave him a 12- retreating at every point before Al- j th^ules'set'forthTn“part
I liPfl tronne* I .Prrvrnn Inccoc ocfimatoH > ..c *
1(r , . „ i gram, and such payment shall
‘Pans reported invading Germans ■ distributed to him in accordance Wll
month probation sentence.
of.
“A” hei
MOTHER, SON CONVICTED
OF MURDER; ONE GETS LIFE
SENTENCE, OTHER
C. To each person who prodiu
cotton on the farm in 1935 and
lied troops; German losses estimated
at 50,099; Petrograd reported 280,-
OOC Austrians taken prisoners.” mii _
- J° th r e i ear 'y editions of the daily j haTnot” soTd' such" cotton prior
CHAIR to,(1 . of ^™ers meeting in Tifton and , Aug . 1, 1936, but on July 31, 1!
r>f P8 >ng a resolution asking Gov. Jno. I has such cotton under the 19c Id
Franklin Ga Sent 21 A 7n ?*’ S,aton ‘2 T nS .° r lnW reqUir i I the cotton Price Adjustment payme
’ ua *» fcfP 1 * —A 70- mg (crop reduction.” The proposed | shall hp mmip if a11 nh cotton
year-old woman and her 25 year old law would have limited cotton pro ' •
son Saturday were found guilty ol duction to three hales- to the plow.
been sold on July 31, 1936, and shi
1 be distributed in accordance with *
slaying the son’s wife, and the moth- I The editorial says “Tifton probably ■ rules"set'Torth"ijr^part""“A”^ here
is the smalest city in the United m H fur
er was sentenced to life imprison- is the smalest city in the United providedf fO 'such *nBrson* has
yi published ' ^-*4 that t^c^
and her son, Clarence Wynens, were as long a period of time.”
charged with slayig the son’s wife,
the the farm home of Clarence Wy
nens near here last June.
The mother and son were tried
jointly.
The jury found both guilty, hut
recommended mercy for the woman,
who cried out at hearing the verdict:
“God knows I am not guilty! I’m
innocent.” The son was sentenced to
die October 25.
The state introduced testimony
that the elderly woman und her son
had treated young Mrs. Wyriem-
cruelly.
The young farm woman’s body was
found in a dense woods about fifty
yards from her home, u shotgun
nearby.
At the time, Sheriff C. W. Bledtoc
of Heard county said, “it first ap
peared to lie a suicide, hut a study of
the 1936 cotton adjustment progfi
and (2) there shall be de^ucl
from fhe cotton' price adjustm*
payment and paid to the leadi
agency all. carrying iharges to
borne by the particular produj
. „ _ c . .. which have accrued Against •
Albany, Ga., Sept. 23.—Full time ■ cotton up to and including Jul)'.
GEOORGIA MILL ORDERS
FULL-TIME OPERATION
operations were ordered today at the
Flint River Cotton Mill here, giving
employment to 300. Harold Wether-
bee, general manager, said it had
been about five months since the mill
operated on full time.
Recently it has been employing
about 76 per cent of a full crew.
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really king, he threatened to sells for ; the situation, and other investigation,,
more than $200 in excess of the sum I revealed facts that did not support a
received in the 1892 sale here. I suicide theory."
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Sal,» Nose
Drops
checks
MALARIA
in 3 days
COLDS
first day.
TONIC ud LAXATIVf
1936, and if such charges are
than the amount of the cotton P 1
adjustment payment, the diflte^
will be paid to the producer but
such charges are greater than
amount of such payment no pay'
will be made hereunder to the
ducer. The amount of the cotton
which payment may be made to
producer under this part “C
added to the amount of the cotto
which payment is made to such r
ducer under part “A” hereof'
not exceed the amount of cotto ,
which such producer .could lie '
all of his 1936 cotton crop hao
sold prior to Aug. 1, l® 36, ? .
were paid therefor solely una
"A” hereof.