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The Monroe Advertiser J . J ? VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX Foiled By Cashier in Hold-Up, Bank Bandit Kills Himself ■> I Roland Andersr n Aswers “Hands - Up” Command Witia'^ Shots. Man Flees and Ends . Nearby The first attempted robbery of a Forsyth bank during the past quarter of a century occurred Wednesday afternoon at 12:15 o’clock when an effort was made to hold up Cashier Roland Anderson of The Citizens Bank. The burglar entered the bank at a time when Mr. Anderson was alone and presented a check to be cashed. When Mr. Anderson glanced at the check, the burglar shoved a pistol through the cashier’s window and ordered him to put up his hands. With rare presence of mind, Mr. Anderson immediately dropped behind the marble front below the cashier’s window, securing his own pistol and fired in an effort to frighten the burglar and sound an alarm. The burglar immediately left the bank and rushed down the street. Just be fore reaching the cross street next to the Methodist church he shot him self in the head, inflicting a fatal wound from which he died about an hour later. There were several wit nesses to the suicide. A search of the body revealed a note to which the name C. A. Bon ner was signed, but there was no indication of the home of the writer. The note was written in two sections on both sides of a small sheet of iablet paper, the first side con taining the following: . To Everybody: I hate to do this, but my life has been a perfect hell, and the sooner the better. Notify hi City Gro. Co. 01 I §5 “ * ” £ I | PHONES 61 and 165 I I Money Is Hard to Get - So We’re Going to Put Prices 9 9 Down to Rock Bottom. Your Dollar Buys More 9 I AT CITY GROCERY COMPANY I I TAKE-A-LOOK-AT-THESE-PRICES I E High - Grade Flour Specials - Reduced Prices 2 BIRDSEY’S BEST—Plain or Self-Rising 24 lbs. $1.25—48 lbs. $2.45 STAG — Self-Rising or Plain 24 lbs. sl.l0 —48 lbs. $2.15 FAIR-PLAY — A Good Cheap Self-Rising Flour 24 lbs. .99 —48 lbs. $1.99 Every Sack Guaranteed I ■ No. 2 can SILVER BAR HEINZ VINEGAR FRESH ■ SLICED PINEAPPLE Pure — Red or White COUNTRY EGGS Whole Slices FULL QUART dozen I 4 cans for SI.OO 25c 29c I I Can Corn, Beans, Peas, Tomatoes —2 No. 2 cans 25c I 1 lb. Morning Joy I SI.OO Coffee 45c Log Cabin Syri p | I Tao Tea Balk Pint 29c | Special -89 c Coffee $1.35 1-2 gallon 99c 1-4 lb. Tea FREE CERTO for making Jelly 29c 10 lb. bucket Pure Lard $1.29 I OLD DUTCH CLEANSER . 3 for 25c 4 lb. bucket Pure Lard .70 GINGER ALE, large size 2 for 25c WHITE MEAT per lb. .14 Blue Cross TOILET TISSUE 6 for 45c 5 lb. bag Graham Flour .29 ■ City Grocery Co. Appreciates Your Trade —We Are I I Rearing for a Chance to Serve You — Give Us a Trial I Mary Bell 4on, Carrollton, Ga., and Hubert Wilson, Canton, Ga. All' my things are in room 830 Griffin । Hotel. Good-bye everybody and ■ don’t fall to hard. C. A. Bonner. | On the second page was the fol- ! lowing: | The one that gets me will be doing 1 me a personal favor. Good-bye lit- I tie dreamy eyes. You believe I love you now, don’t you, sugar. Cholly. I On the ba<;k of a blank check of 1 the Merchants & Farmers Bank of i Marietta, Benner had written these words: The time has come when I must end it all. Near the spot where Bonner shot himself was a Ford sedan in which it is supposed that he came to For syth. The car contained a package iof cartridges such as were used in the Colts revolver used by Bonner and it was ascertained that the car belonged to J. W. Harris of Bremen. Oscar Pierce, a youth who claimed that he lives in Rome and who was found in the car following the sdi cide of Bonner, has been held on suspicion of being implicated in the । attempted robbery. He claimed that . he had merely caught a ride with ! Bonner. He had been seen in For : syth at various places during the • day and had been heard to state that he knew Bonner. , The attempted burglary and subse , quent suicide of Bonner created a ' great deal of excitement in Forsyth FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, JULY 10, 1930. and the manner in which Mr. An derson met the emergency was highly commended. HIGHWAY METHODIST CHURCH MAKES PROGRESS The Highway Methodist church at the Forsyth Cotton Mills has been making commendable progress dur irig the past few months under the i pastorate of Rev. J. B. Knowles of ! Griffin. Services are held on the first and third Saturdays and Sun ! days of each month with preaching Saturday night, Sunday morning and | Sunday night. The public is cordial ly invited to attend these services. SEE “THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY” MONDAY This film, is being run by the local American Legion post and every man, woman and child in Monroe county should see the picture. It is not a war picture, it is an historical American drama taken from the book written by Anthony Paul Kelly. It is a never-to-be-forgotten picture with a strong patriotic lesson that will long be remembered. This picture will be run in Forsyth Monday, July 14, only one day. Ad mission 35 cents fbr adults and 15 cents for children. All the profits from the show will be used to erect a flag pole and flag on the new school grounds. BARBECUE WILL BE ..GIVEN BY CABANISS WOMAN’S CLUB The Cabaniss Woman’s Club will give a barbecue on July 17. Dinner will be served at 1:00 o’clock and there will be singing in the morning and afternoon. CITIZENS DISCUSS । HIGHWAY ROUTE ► RAILROAD AVENUE ADVOCATES OUTVOTE PROPONENTS OF OTHER PROPOSED ROUTES AT MEETING TUESDAY MORNING. A mass meeting of about 75 peo ple met at the courthouse Tuesday morning for the purpose of discuss ing the route along which highway No. 42 .would pass through Forsyth. The divisional engineer of the State Highway Department was present and the meeting was presided over by Mr. IL H. Hardin. Talks were made by Messrs. R. L. Williams, B. S. Willingham, V. B. Hooks, A. L. Willingham, C. W. Hill and Dr. J. 0. Elrod, t%e three routes discussed be ing Jackson street, Railroad avenue and Lee street. Mr. Williams ad vanced the theory that the federal and state engineers were the proper authorities to locate highways and that it whs the duty of citizens af fected by the highway to be guided by the judgment of the engineers. He cited the fact that the engineers had agreed that Jackson street was the most practical route and that the city council last year cooperated with the highway authorities to the extent of endorsing this route. The arguments for Railroad ave nue were numerous but. of seemingly little weight from a traffic stand point, being mainly along the line of the benefit that would come to prop erty owners along Railroad avenue, the scenery which tourists would there enjoy and the added paving which Forsyth would secure on ac ; iMmt of this more circuitous route. When a vote as to the route was proposed, Mr. Williams moved that those living on the proposed routes not be permitted to vote as that would be an instance of a juror sit ting on his own case. This was act ed upon adversely. Mr. Williams then offered amendments to the ef fect that the mass meeting decide not only where the highway should be located but also when it should be built and according to what spec ifications and- that the route take in the campus of Bessie Tift college in order to secure the greatest possible amount of paving for Forsyth. The amendments were defeated and those present voted 58 in favor of Railroad avenue and 8 against, the net result of the meeting being to bring out the startling fact that those present •who were interested in Railroad ave nue were in favor of the highway going there. A resolution was offered by Mr. H. H. Hardin and adopted that the High way Department be petitioned to complete the highway from Forsyth to Knoxville as soon as possible. LIBRARY RECEIVES J4UMBER VALUABLE BOOKS FOR BOYS The Forsyth Public Library is grateful for the recent gift of a set of 36 books for boys. This donation was from Mr. Joe Baker Hill of Ma con and will add much to the enjoy ment of young readers. Another ap preciated gift was that of two novels from Miss Mary Persons. The library has been well patron ized during the usually dull summer oason as is shown by the report for June. On a recent Saturday 278 bo. ' s were given out, the largest number for any day since the organi- Rhodes Realty Co. Real Estate Specialists zation of the library. । The report for June shows a circu lation of 1,154, with 987 fiction and 167 non-fiction. Those patronizing the reading room numbered 167 and there were five borowers. Eighteen new books were added. Fines amounted to .58 and the amount of fetes was $3.48. THIRTIETH TANK COMPANY READY FOR SUMMER CAMP The Thirtieth Tank Company is making preparation to entrain for summer encampment Sunday morn ing. The company will again be lo cated at Camp McClellan, Ala., for fifteen days, returning July 27. In addition to the officers, Captain C. F. Heard, First Lieutenants K. L. Hollis and A. S. Burton and Second Lieutenants J. O. Couch and E. T. Grant, 55 men will go to the encamp ment. About 2,000 troops will be in train ing at Camp McClellan and the Thir tieth Tank Company is recognized as among the best organizations in the state militia. STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF Farmers Bank, Forsyth, Ga. AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 30, 1930, AS CALLED FOR BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS R T. Persons, President R - J - Cashier Chartered 1910. Began Business 19i0. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ’ 2 'SS Banking house and lot ; 2 493 15 Furniture and Fixtures Checks for clearing and due from other Banks - „ , 994.77 Cash items - , ft nn Advance on Cotton and other Commodities 1,000.00 . $314,968.44 Total LIABILITIES , , , $ 50,000.00 Capital Stock 50,000.00 Surplus Fund : - ; 3,723.76 Undivided Profits 21J 244.68 Demand Deposits . ’ TolaJ $314,968.44 Georgia, Monroe County.—Personally appeared before the undersigned, an officer authorized to administer oaths in said county, R. J. BitticK, wno on oath, says that he is the Cashier of the Farmers Bank, and that the above and foregoing report of the condition of said Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 7th day of July, 1930. JNO. O. PONDER, Clerk, S. C., M. Co., Ga. We, the undersigned directors of said bank, do certify that we have carefully read said report, and that the same is true and correct, according to the best of our information, knowledge and belief, and that the above signature of the cashier of said bank is the true and genuine s.gnature of that officer. This 7th day of July, 1930. G. Ogden Persons, R. T. Persons, Directors of said Bank. . We call your attention to our bank statement and want to help you to analyze and understand a bank state ment. • Bills Receivable mean notes that the bank took for money loaned. You know from reading Bills Receivable how much money a bank has loaned out. Cash in Vault and in Banks means the cash you have in your safe and the amount of cash you have in oth er banks. Banking House and Fixtures mean the amount you have invested in the bank building and the fixtures. Your Capital means the amount of money you have put in to do banking business. Surplus is supposed to represent what you have accumulated in busi ness and it can be actual values and it can mean a lot of notes that are | not worth the cash sp you can’t tell of a bank’s surplus. Interest and individual profits mean interest charged in notes col lected and uncollected. Now we call your attention to items not in our statement as we do not have to borrow, hence these items all represent items in bank statements made by banks that bor row money to run their business on. First: Banks use various names, all of which represent money they get from others. For instance, Bills Payable mean money borrowed by the bank. Time Certificates mean the same thing, rponey borrowed. Savings Ac counts mean the same—money bor- NUMBER TWENTY-THREE UPSON GIRL FREED OF MURDER CHARGE MISS GOINS SHOOTS MAN .WHO ABUSED HER AFTER SHE RE FUSED TO JOIN PARTY FOR AUTOMOBILE RIDE. Exonerated of criminal re sponsibility in the slaying of Howell Swain, of Molena, Miss Daisy Goins was free to return home Saturday. THOMASTON, Ga.—Miss Daisy Goins, 16, of near Thomaston, shot Howell Swain, 50, of Molena, at the home of her parents about 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon with a shot gun, the load penetrating his heart and death resulted jnstantly, accord ing to reports of officers. Miss Goins has been placed in the Upson county jail to await commit j ment trial. , According to reports, Howell (Continued on page four) rowed. You go to a bank and they want to borrow your money, they will use one of the above words to please you, which to them is all the same so they can borrow your mon ey. A bank can get more money on what they call Saving* Account* than they can any other way, for you see no one would loan a bank the amount of money that they can borrow from various and many people what the Saving* Account amounts to. Second: If you want to know how much money a bank has borrowed, you add up the figures shown oppo site Bills ^Payable, Time Certificates and Savings Account, and you can tell what that bank owes. Third: Desposits. This means money deposited in a bank for you and is subject to your demands and you can get it any time that you ask for it. j Fourth: Wishing to render you service, as we do not borrow your money, if you have any money that you want to be getting interest for we will buy you some Bonds, any amount from SIOO up. You may say that you do not know about Bonds, and all this is true, but stop and think how much safer for you to loan your money On bonds which are paid back by taxes collected where you will not take any chances. This is absolutely safe. We know about Bonds and will be glad to help you. If you loan your money to banks they will have to loan it out and take the chance of collecting it back to pay । you. Fifth: If we 'mn serve you, com ■ mand us.