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The Monroe Advertiser
VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX
U. S. POPULATION IS
PUT AT 12^$« 190
1930 CENSUS SHOWS GAIN OF
16.1 PER CENT OVER 1920.
GEORGIA GAINS TWO-TENTHS
OF ONE PER CENT.
WASHINGTON.—The population
of continental United States on April
Ist was 122,698,190, an increase of
16,987,570, or 16.1 per cent, over
1920, according to an official prelimi
nary count made public by the census
bureau.
More than one-quarter of the in
crease was concentrated in two states,
California with a gain of 2,245,148
and New York with a rise of 2,234,-
276. Michigan, Texas and Illinois
each accounted for more than 1,000,-
000 in the increase. Pennsylvania
gained more than 900,000 and Ohio
and New Jersey more than 870,000
each.
On a percentage basis California
shows the highest increase, 65.5 per
cent, and Florida followed had 51.4
per cent, followed by Michigan with
32.0 per cent, Arizona with 30.4, New
Jersey with 27.6, Texas with 24.8 and
N«rth Carolina with 23.9.
Montana with 12,557, or 2.3 per
cent fewer inhabitants in 1930 than
in 1920, is the only state which shows
a decrease, though Georgia shows an
increase of only two-tenths of one
per cent, and three other states, Ver
mont, lowa and South Carolina, in
creased less than 3 per cent.
These figures are subject to revis
ion as the final count is completed
by the bureau, but no considerable
, changes are expected. The total as
indicated by the preliminary count,
agrees closely with an estimate of
122,957,000 for April Ist, made by
the bureau more than a year ago on
the basis of reported births, deaths
and net immigration. Figures were
also announced for the outlying ter
ritories and possessions, except the
Philippine Islands, and for persons in
military and naval service.
Census figures for the outlying
possessions were announced as fol
lows:
Alaska, 58,758, as compared with
55,036 in 1920, an increase of 6.8
per cent.
' JUST BETWEEN
THE TWO OF US
We are thoroughly satis
fied that one of the principal
reasons why the saloon can
never come back is because
filling stations have all the
choice comers.
We are also satisfied that
good building materials in
sure construction of the
highest type. We carry and
sell only the best despite our
reasonable prices. You will
find our estimates a revela
tion of liberality—our serv
ice admirable.
GEORGIA
HARDWARE CO
Hawaii, 368,336, as compared with
255,912, an increase of 43.9.
Porto Rico, 1,543,913, as compared
with 1,299,809, an increase of 18.8
-»nt.
Ude i 8,521, as compared with
13,275, an increase of 39.5.
American Samoa, 10,055, as com
pared with 8,056, an increase of 24.8
per cent.
Panama Canal Zone, 39,467, as
compared with 22,858, an increase
of 72.7.
Virgin Islands, 22,012, as compared
with 26,051, a decrease of 15.5.
The absolute increase of 16,987,-
570, in the population of continental
United States between 1920 and
1930 is larger than that shown for any
previous decade, and the percentage
of increase is higher, than that shown
for the decade 1910-20, which was
only 14.9 per cent.
On this point the census bureau
said:
“Allowance shuold be made, how
ever, for the fact that the period
between the census of 1910 and 1920
was less than a full decade.
“An increase of 16.1 per cent for
123 months (the time between Jan
uary Ist, 1920 and April 1, 1930) is
equivalent to 15.7 per cent for exactly
seven years, and the 1920 increase
for 116 months (the time between
April 15, 1910 and January 1, 1920)
is equivalent to 15.4 per cent for
120 months. Making this adjustment
therefore, the rate of increase for
the de<ade just completed is only
slightly higher than that for the pre
ceding decade.”
FORMER FORSYTH GROCER
MEETS TRAGIC DEATH
The Forsyth friends of Mr. Bar
tow Wright, formerly connected with
the Forsyth brapch of Rogers Stores,
were grieved to learn of his tragic
death at Jonesboro, Monday. The
following account erf the tragedy is
taken from the Tuesday edition of
The Macon Telegraph:
The death of Bartow Wright, 23-
year-old manager of a Jonesboro
grocery, whose body was found in his
automobile near here today, was un
den investigation by sheriff’s offi
cers.
Sheriff E. L. Anderson said that
a pistol with one empty chamber was
found on the floor of the machine.
The sheriff said that circumstances
made it impossible for him to say
whether Mr. Wright or someone else
fired the shot.
He pointed out that while powder
burns on the clothing seemed to in
dicate suicide, he had been unable to
find any motive for the young man
taking his own life and that the keys
to the store were missing. This lat
ter fact, he said, lent some strength
to a theory that Mr. Wright may
have been slain and robbed.
Wright was a nephew of S. T.
Wright, Atlanta attorney, and of
Judge W. M. Wright, of Jonesboro
city court.
HOME BAKERY WILL
BE MOVED FROM FORSYTH
The Forsyth Home Bakery, oper
ated here for several years by Mr.
and Mrs. A. Kroening, closed this
week on account of the decision of
the owners to move the plant to Car
tersville. This was one of the high
class institutions of its kind and ren
reded excellent service to the com
munity. The patrons of the bakery
and the friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Kroening regret that they are
prompted by business reasons to
move elsewhere and wish for them
success in their new location.
PIPPIN OPENS MEAT
MARKET IN FORSYTH
Mr. J. F. Pippin has opened a meat
market in the building next to the
Mrs. B. O. Abernathy store. The
market is known as the Forsyth Meat
Market and will carry a full line of
choice meats. Special prices for the
opening are announced in an adver
tisement elsewhere in this issue.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 21, 1930.
MANY SENTENCED
IN LIQUOR CASES
LARGE MAJORITY OF CONVIC
TIONS IN SUPERIOR COURT
OUTGROWTH OF CHARGES IN
VOLVING WHISKEY.
The following is a list of the con
victions during the criminal week of
court which closed last week, and it
will be seen that nearly- all of the
eases were connected with the mak
ing or use of liquor:
Saxon Woodward, larceny from the
house, guilty, six months; Chess
Shannon, having liquor, guilty, six
months; Joe Davis, drunk on high
way, guilty, four months or $50.00;
Nathaniel Howard, stealing ride, guil
ty, three months or $40.00; Freeman
Jones, stealing ride, three months
or $40.00; Jack Smiley, auto stealing,
guilty, two to three years; Willie
Leary, larceny, guilty, $50.00 or six
months; John Perkins, attempt to
make liquor, plea, twelve months;
Wm. Evans, making liquor, verdict,
twelve months; Buddie McCoy, point
ing pistol, verdict, $75.00 or six
months; Curtis Winfrey, driving car
while under the influence of liquor,
plea, SIOO.OO or twelve months; Al
bert Holt, pointing pistol, verdict,
twelve months; Will Leary, having
liquor, plea, six months; Grover Lind
sey, drunk on highway, plea, sour 1
months and costs, sentence suspend
ed; J. H. Johnson, larceny, verdict,
not less nor more than one year; Fred
Bunn, having liquor, plea, $40.00, or
six months; Wm. O’Neal, making li
quor, plea, twelve months.
STATE NEGRO WOMEN TO
ESTABLISH HOME FOR GIRLS
FORT VALLEY, Ga. —Organized
Negro women of Georgia are work
ing to secure a home for young Ne
gro girls, too young to be punished
with other criminals. They have pur
chased a 10-acre tract about 7 miles
from Macon on the Jeffersonville
road and a southern white man has
agreed to give them $2,500 if they
will raise a like amount.
The project is being fostered by
the Georgia State Federation of Col
ored Women and negro women over
the state are at work to raise the
$2,500. Small gifts are coming in
regularly since the state convention
of the federation held in Gainesville
in June.
Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas
have such an institution as the col
ored women arc planning to establish
and the project on the part of Geor
gia colored women is being approved
heartily by a number of the judges
over the state who have promised
their cooperation in putting the mat
ter over.
The place will be in the nature of
a reformatory and training home and
will be a refuge for the youthful Ne
gro girls only.
MRS. W. J. BYRD PASSES
FOLLOWING SHORT ILLNESS
Mrs. W. J. Byrd, a popular mem
ber of the Trio community, died at
her home Saturday following a short
illness. Mrs. Byrd is survived by her
husband, one daughter, Martha; her
mother, Mrs. J. R. Simmons, and two
sisters, Misses Mollie and Piety Sim
mons, all of Forsyth. The funeral
was conducted Sunday afternoon at
Maynards church by Rev. H. D. War
nock and Rev. P. P. Mosely and in
terment was in the church cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were in
charge of the Bramblett Funeral
Home.
BRANTLEY WILL PREACH
AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Dr. R. L. Brantley of Bessie Tift
college will have charge of the morn
ing service at the Baptist church Sun
day. Dr. Brantley is a man of ability
and pleasing address and his many
Forsyth friends will be glad of the
opportunity to her him Sunday morn
ing.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OPEN SEPT. IST
SUPT. RUMBLE TELLS PUPILS
NOT TO BUY BOOKS UNTIL
AFTER SCHOOL OPENS. $1.25
INCIDENTAL FEE ASSESSED.
The fall term of the Forsyth Pub
lic Schools will begin Monday, Sep
tember 1. To save time and trouble
for all concerned, pupils should
bring their report cards. Pupils
should not buy their books until they
come to school.
Monday and Tuesday will be tak
en for registration of pupils, and for
such examinations as have to be giv
en. All pupils should report prompt
ly on Monday morning at 8:45; pu
pils who are to enter high school re
port to the high school building, those
entering the grammar grades report
to the grammar school building.
There is an incidental fee of $1.25.
This will be due on the day the pupil
enters. A few of the patrons have
asked what this fee is for. Some of
the items for which this fee is paid
are: coal, chalk, disinfectants, oil for
heaters, brooms, mops, stamps and
stationery, record books. There are
two rooms in the old building which
we have been unable to heat without
oil heaters. Such items as this and
the ones mentioned above, together
with many others that come up daily,
are met by means of this incidental
fee; or at least some of them are
met in this way. This small fee,
which the Board of Education puts
upon each child, is not sufficient to
meet all incidental expenses. It is
entirely in order to say here that the
schools of Forsyth and Monroe coun
ty are fortunate in having such a
small incidental fee. While some
schools have no fee at all, many of
|them have one much higher than
$1.25, some of them being as high as
$7.00 per term per pupil.
I shall be in the office every day
next week from 10:30 to 11:30 for
consultation with those who may
wish to see me.
THEO RUMBLE, Jr.
PARALYTIC CASES REMAIN
PUZZLES TO PHYSICIANS
WASHINGTON. — Physicians of
the public health service are still puz
zled as to the cause of paralytic cases
which followed drinking of an adul
tereated fluid extract of ginger.
After months of investigation they
have decided the disease, which crip
pled thousands in the midwest and
south, was caused by some denatur
ant used in the ginger. A statement
by the public health service added,
however, that the studies were by no
means complete and that the mechan
ism of suspected adulterants was not
clear. The possibility that the poison
might have been in alcohol used to
concoct the beverage was touched
upon.
“From its chemical behavior,” the
statement said, “it appears to resem
ble a phosperic acid ester of tricre
sol, which in itself does not appear
to be a well-defined chemical entity.”
The poison, the health service said,
in some way got into a manufac
tured lot of so-called fluid extract
of ginger recently since many of
those stricken had drunk similar
preparations for years without ap
preciable effect.
MOTHERS EXCHANGE BABES
AND FAMOUS MIX-UP SETTLED
CHICAGO.—The Bamberger-Wat
kins babies were switched again to
day, the parents agreeing to exchange
them at Englewood hospital, where
they were born and where their iden
tity labels were mixed.
Suddenly deciding they did not pos
sess their own baby, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Bamberger took the infant
boy to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
William Watkins to make an ex
change which heretofore Mr. Bam
berger has ruled against.
Arriving at the Watkins home,
Mrs. Bamberger bearing the infant
which was christened a “Bamberger,”
said she wanted to exchange the ba
bies.
“Oh, I’ve always wanted that ba
by. It’s mine,” smiled Mrs. Watkins,
“but how’ll we do it?”
This problem was solved when Mrs.
Bamberger picked up the child lying
peacefully in the Watkins' crib, and
exchanged its,clothing for that worn
by the one heretofore possessed by
the Bambegrers.
MASONIC FRATERNITY DESIRES
TO AID CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Dr. R. C. Goolsby, as a member of
the Crippled Children’s Hospital com
mittee of the ALSihah Temple of Ma
con, has received a letter from the
chairman of the committee urging
that he be on the lookout for cases
in this territory which might be help
ed by a period in the Shrine hospital.
Dr. Goolsby will be glad to consult
with any who know of such cases
in this section.
LIBRARY PATRONS REQUESTED
TO RETURN BOOKS
The Forsyth public library is now
open following the return of the
librarian, Mrs. C .T. Brown, from her
vacation. The librarian requests
that all patrons return books now out
and that this matter be attended to
before other books are takten out.
This is necessary in order to put the
library in shape for the fall season.
TOWALIGA CONFERENCE
WILL OBSERVE HOME COMING
The Towaliga district conference
will have a home coming meeting at
Mt. Zion church on August 31, the
fifth Sunday. All who come are
requested to bring lunch.
ADVICE TO SPEAKERS AND
SCRIBES
Mr. Editor: Too often when the
phone rings we hear, Guess who is
this. Lo, the poor Indian, didn't miss
the mark much when he said, “White
man, he heap dam talk.” Many of
us talk too much with our mouth,
especially during election years, for
pending a primary all sorts of charges
and counter charges are brought
against every aspirant for office,
while after the second run-off all ac
knowledge the charges were pure
campaign stuff and the selected can
didates are satisfactory to the major
ity. Many of us kill too much time
with our typewriters in uninteresting
news (so-called) and on subjects we
really know less about than newspa
per readers. Doubtless individuals of
too much leisure, bored with idleness,
instead of resorting to some book,
undertake to expatiate and dilate up
on subjects they vainly imagine the
common layman is ignorant of, for
getting the American people are most
avaricious readers, have convenient
access to more and better newspa
pers, more abundant cheap literature
and more free libraries than any peo
ples on earth. At all events some
writers and correspondents must im
agine should others take time to read
their effusions it would help telieve
them of ennui or help whileaway
their idle time. True the people are
constantly seeking news, information
and edification, but any correspond
ent is indeed an optimist who thinks
the busy world reads only to while
away idle time, or as St. Paul wrote
of the Athenians, spend their time in
nothing else but either to tell or hear
some new thing. Much that is writ
ten and published, “we read it and
weep.” What fools we mortals be.
Editors might correct much of this
only they are too sympathetic—slow
to offend —hoping against hope that
some day some writers might see the
error of their way and remember
time and space have a money value.
Editors often in their press of busi
ness forget theit waste-basket, though
these lines may locate it. This gibe is
not against any scribbler more than
the undersigned. O. L. W.
NUMBER /TWENTY-NINE
NATURAL GAS CO. IS
RUSHING WORK HERE
CORPORATION MAKES RAPID
PROGRESS LAYING MAINS.
DISPLAY AND SALES ROOM IS
BEING ARRANGED.
The Southern Natural Gas Corpor
ation is making rapid prdogress in
laying the gas mains and completing
such other work as will make natural
gas available in the homes and busi
ness houses of Forsyth at a compara
tively early date. A construction de
partment is now operating from For
syth with headquarters in the old
Tribble building on Lee street. Mr.
J. W. Dorman is superintendent of
this department, Mr. W. H. Reynolds
is paymaster and Mr. J. H. Grant is
draughtsman. About 75 men are em
ployed under them in the local con
struction area.
In addition to the construction de
partment here, the corporation has
leased from Mr. H. H. Hardin part of
the store building formerly occupied
by Mr. C. H. Meek and will at an
early date begin the operation there
of an up-to-date stere for the supply
ing of the public with gas ranges,
heaters and such other appliances as
go along with the enjoyment of the
advantages of natural gas. Mr. C.
W. Rushin will be the local manager
of this store.
It is expected that at an early date
the Southern Natural Gas Corpora
tion will make official announce
ment as to the opening of the store
and as to other matters of interest
to the public. •
FORMER MONROE COUNTY
VOUNG MAN DIES IN MACON
Wednesday morning’s Macon Tele
graph carried the following notice of
the death of a former Monroe county
young man:
Jesse L. Childs, Macon salesman of
147 Rose Park, died at 10 o’clock yes
terday morning in a local sanitarium.
He had been in ill health for some
time and for the last several weeks.
had been critically ill. *
Mr. Childs, who was 25 years of
age, moved here eight years ago •
from Monroe county. He is survived
by his widow, who was formerly Miss
Flossie Yarbrough; four brothers and 1
one sister, J. T. Childs, of Macon, J..
Si, of Kathleen, William, of Smarrs,
Troy, also of Smarrs, and Mrs. J. C.
Price, of St. Augustine, Fla. His
father, Jesse C. Childs, of Smarrs.
also survives. i
The body will be taken to Forsyth
Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock.
The funeral cortege will leave Bram
blett Funeral Home at 11 o’clock for
Paran church, eight miles from For
syth, where the funeral services and
interment will take place.
MONEY RECEIVED FOR
THIRD QUARTER PENSIONS
Ordinary G. W. Newton has re
ceived funds with which to pay the
pensioners of Monroe county the sum
of $50.00 for the third quarter. Mr.
Newton requests that those who have
not already done so call to see him
and get their money.
NOTICE
In moving The Monroe Advertiser
plant, two valuable numbering ma
chines and a can es gilt powder were
lost. A reward will be paid to any
one finding and returning these ar
ticles.
mW
Rhodes Realty Co.
Real Estate Specialists
Forsyth, Ga.
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