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The Monroe Advertiser
volume seventy-six
RUN OVER RACE FOR
GOVERNOR ON OCT. 1
VOTERS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN
RUSSELL AND CARSWELL IN
SECOND PRIMARY. MANY ONE
SIDED RACES WEDNESDAY.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Complete offi
cial returns from all counties in the
state except three tonight indicated
William B. Harrison had apparently
been nominated for comptroller gen
eral ovei- Homer C. Parker by a mar
gin of two county unit votes.
The popular vote cast in the sena
torial race, in which United States
Senator Wm. J. Harris overwhelm
ingly defeated former Governor John
M. Slaton went above 200,000. With
the official tabulation missing only
from Baker, Candler and Clinch
counties, the popular vote stood: Hs’"-
ris 161,171, Slaton 45,093. Harris
carried every county in the state ex
cept Evans, which gave its two coun
ty unit votes to Slaton.
In the five cornered race for gov
ernor, Richard B. Russell, Jr., was
given a popular vote of 63,862, with
the same three counties missing from
the official tabulation. George H.
Carswell, who with Russell will con
test for the nomination in the run-off
primary October 1, received 56,627
votes; E. D. Rivers received 52,738;
John N. Holder 49,561, and James
v A. Perry polled 8,535.
Russell carried 49 counties with a
total of 132 county unit votes; Cars
well 47 counties with 126 unit votes;
Rivers 38 counties with 88 unit votes
and Holder 27 counties with 68 votes.
Perry received no county unit votes.
John Wilson, secretary to Govern
or Hardman, won the nomination for
secretary of state by carrying 138
of the state’s 414 county unit votes.
Wilson amassed a total of 48,137
popular votes. Lewis S. Moore, who
ran second to Wilson in county unit
votes with 106, found himself third
in the popular vote with 34,760. Nat
H. Ballard, second in the popular
vote with 42,440, was third in the
running for unit votes with 86. Jas.
J. Flynt received a popular vote of
26,172 and 28 unit votes; D. Tal
madge Bowers 15,628 and 16; -J. M.
Pitner 12,675 and 24' Carl N. Guess
12,247 and 8; A. H. Henslee 6,619
and two.
In the race for Attorney general,
George M. Napier, incumbent, com
piled an overwhelming majority over
his opponent Dorsey Davis.
Eugene Talmadge, state commis
sioner of agriculture, was returned to
office by 406 county unit votes to
eight for his opponent, J. J. Brown.
Brown carried three of the 161 coun-
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THE WESTERN ELECTRIC SOUND SYSTEM
TALKING SINGING
THE NEW FORSYTH THEATRE
PROGRAM
FRIDAY-SATURDAY—This Week
“HIT THE DECK”—
Featuring Jack Oakie and Polly Walker. A Rousing Combination
of Comedy and Song that is fascinating, fast moving and ele
gantly staged. Come—be With the BIG crowd.
Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 22-23
Richard Dix in “Loving the Ladies” —
Can any couple be made to Love? Thrills! Romance! LAUGHS.
Wednesday-Thursday, Sept. 24-25
“RUNAWAY BRIDE”-
Featuring Lloyd Hughes and Mary Astor. Say it with Flowers
and she’s your Bride. A Little Thought EacL Day and They Don’t
Run Away, but she loves the man who smokes a pipe.
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 26-27
“DIXIANA”—
The BIG Super-Special Attraction, in colors.
Will everybody see “DIXIANA”? If not, why not?
NOTE: In last week’s paper we advertised “DIX
IANA” for Sept. 22-23, but the playing dates were
unavoidably postponed to Sept. 26-27. Read more
about “DIXIANA” in next week’s Advertiser.
JUDGE PERSONS PRESIDES
! .OVER PEACH COUNTY COURT
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Juci b O. Persons presided over
Peach Sup. - Court last week and
the following . tide concerning his
work is taken from the Fort Valley
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Leader-Tribune:
Judge G. Ogden Persons of For
syth who is presiding over the crimi
nal division of Peach Superior Court
this week, has made a splendid im
pression upon those in attendance
upon the court by the way he expe
dites business and the fairness of his
rulings.
Judge Persons was born and rear
ed in this city. His mother, Mi%.
Mary J. Persons, was for a long time
the leader of a private school here
and one of the main streets of the
town is named Persons streets for the
Peysons family.
Judge Persons came here at the
invitation of Judge Malcolm Jones,
who was otherwise engaged this
week.
MORE THAN HALF OF 1930
LEGISLATURE IS RETURNED
ATLANTA.—With 96 members of
the present house of representatives
returning, 19 membe’-s of the pres
ent house going to the 1931 senate
and two of the present senate re
turning, there will be more than half
the entire membership of the 193 Q
legislature still in harness next year.
Including those among the new
membership who have served previ
ously, it appears that the 1931 body
will be made up very nearly of 70
per cent experienced legislators.
NATURAL GAS UNES
ARE LAID IN FORSYTH
The Georgia Natural Gas Corpor
ation has been busy this week laying
main and branch line pipes in For
syth with the prospect of completing
the work Friday. A network of pipe
lines has been laid in the residence
and business sections of Forsyth.
This makes possible the turning on
of gas in Forsyth about one year
ahead of tbv time contemplated in
the original schedule.
Gas is being piped he ne from Mon
roe, La., fields and will be used for
either heating or cooking by a num
ber of the homes and business insti
tutions in Forsyth. •
LOCAL BESSIE TIFT ALUMNAE
TO MEET TUESDAY AFTERNOON
The Forsyth chapter of the Bessie
Tift College alumnae will meet Tues
day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the
home of Mrs. G. H. Alexander. All
members are urged to be present.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPT. 18, 1930.
MOTHER KILLS TWO
CHILDREN AND SELF
MRS. ARTIS SMITH OF CRAW
FORD COUNTY USES POISON
TO END LIVES. THREE THOU
SAND ATTEND FUNERALS.
KNOXVILLE, Gs.—Poison bought
eight years ago to kill moles brought
death to three human beings, a moth
er and her two children, early Sat
urday morning, on a Crawford coun
ty farm, located on the Byrom-Knox
ville road.
Mrs. Artis L. Smith, 31. nothcr of
the two children, swallowed a fati.l
does of the poison after she had giv
en Malcolm, aged 7, and Margie,
aged 4, a' similar dose, according to
the verdict reached by a coroner's
jury at the inquest Saturday after
noon. The empty bottle of poisop
and the glass used were found with
the bodies when Ethel, the negro
cook, and Clanton Davis, overseer,
went into Mrs, Smith's room to see
why there was no answer.
Mrs. Smith and her two children
were supposed to have been spending
the night with her mother, Mrs. Min
nie Holoman, at a nearby farm, while
her husband, Artis Smith, was on a
fox hunt with Charles Bryant and a
group of Macon and Crawford coun
ty men.
Mrs. Smith was to have appeared
in court at Knoxville, county seat, at
9 o’clock Saturday morning to an
swer to a peace warrant taken the
afternoon before by her busband and
served later by Sheriff Giles. The
sheriff said he told her she would
have to appear in answer to the war
rant. Sheriff Giles said he seized
two pistols in the Smith home.
Mrs. Smith agreed, the sheriff
stated, that she would take Malcoli*
a»d stay at Mrs. Hoolowan’s wW7
Margie had been left a short while
before by Mr. Smith. She went to
I her mother’s, it was Wought out at
: the inquest, but returned home with
both children instead of staying there
with them. The mether amd daugh
ter were found in bed a»d the son
wrapped in a sheet «n the floor.
An altercation in which Mrs. Smith
brandished a pistol and fired it into
the air from a back porch sent Mr.
Smith to Knoxvft>e to swear oat the
peace warrant, it developed.
The difference grew out of ®n or
der for Rdbert, the negro man on
the place, to ctop stovewood which
Artis Smith unknowingly e»>unter
manfled with inrtnnctions to rake up
hay before a storm broke.
"We were continually haring dis
putes,” Mr. Smith testified, “not over
any serious questions but over little
things, just like the stovewood. Jew
el) was nervous higb-stoMpg and
whe» anything did not go just as she
expected, she got all wrought up. She
thought I was trying to run tbe house
when she found the wood had not
been cut. I did not even know Rob
ert wan to cut stovewood. When I
found it out I sent him to do it. (The
wood was cut on the porch.) Jewell
has been disturbed a long time abaut
conditions in her family and mine.
My mother is paralyzed and I help
her occasionally. She went to live
with other relatives instead of com
ing here so as to keep from causing
friction.”
An earlier disagreement between
the couple threatened to bring on a
divorce, it was recalled. About six
weeks ago Mr. Smith applied for a
divorce and took out first papers in
Knoxville. The papers stayed on file
for abou tthree weeks and then the
couple appeared in court to say that
they had made up. They went away
together “like two sweethearts,” as
observers put it.
Bodies Buried Side by Side
The bodies of Mrs. Smith and her
two children were buried side hy side
Sunday afternoon in Union church
cemetery, three miles from the Smith
residence. The funeral, held in the
little country Baptist Missionary
church, was said to have been the
largest ever held in Crawford county.
LIONS CLUB HEARS
GAS OFFICIAL TALK
MARQUIS MAKES INTERESTING
ADDRESS ON ADVANTAGES
NATURAL GAS BRINGS TO
PATRONS OF CORPORATION.
The Forsyth Lions Club met Fri
day evening with a good attendance.
Messrs. W. E. Trippe, C. W. Rushin
and F. C. Marquis, employes of the
Georgia Natural Gas Corporation,
and Mr. E. H. Reese were welcomed
as visitors. Mr. Marquis was intro
duced as the speaker of the evening
by Mr. Forest Alexander, chairman
of the entertainment committee. Mr.
Marquis made an interesting address
in which he discussed the scope and
purposes of the Natural Gas Corpor
ation and the advantages which it
brought to the communities in which
it operated. He also answered a
number of questions relating to the
use of gas in Forsyth.
Dr. J. O. Elrod also made an inter
esting address concerning the Mary
Persons High School, the successful
erection of which was due in large
measure to the careful oversight giv
en the project by the citizens com
mittee of which he was chairman and
which was composed of himself,
Messrs. W. H. Newton, C. W. Hill,
A. M. Zellner, U. S. Fuller and H.
W. Freeman.
Dr, Elrod stated that the building
was \completed with the exception of
certain equipment, some of which
had been delayed in Order to get
specifications from the teachers. A
number of modern improvements
not contemplated in the original
specifications have been added to the
building, such as a special type of
window ventilation and an addition
to the heating equipment in the form
of went radiators which would give a
complete change of air in each class
room every ten minutes.
The home economics equipment of
the school has received special praise
from Miss Epsie Campbell, state su
perviswr of that department, who
stated that this school has the second
best (equipment of the kind in the
state, being surpassed only by La-
Grange, which has a special build
ing ifor home economics. Miss Camp
beß is arranging to secure a state
appropriation of $450 for this de
partment upon the basis of a home
economics class of three sections.
In spite of the fact that the school
building has more improvements than
were included in the contract., sav
ings were (effected at other points to
such an extent as to enable the com
niittee to keep the total expense
within the appropriation.
PARALLEL BOOKS ARE
NEEDED BY LIBRARY
The Forsyth Public Library is in
need of books to be used by the school
children in their parallel reading. The
following is a list of the parallels
which have been designated for the
ninth and tenth grades and any who
have one or more of these books
which they will donate to the library
will be rendering a considerable serv
ice, as in many cases a number of the
books are needed:
Ninth Grade
I. Longer Prose Narratives. <Se-
People were present from several
Middle Georgia counties, and the
crowd was estimated at 3,000.
Artis Smith, the husband, collapsed
during the service. The three cas
kets were in line, the mother being
in a gray casket and the children in
white caskets. At the cemetery the
graves were side by side, with the
mother in the center, and the son on
the left and the daughter on the
right. Rev. Chas. C. Heard, of Lo
cust Grove, former pastor, conducted
the funeral services for the three,
being assisted by Rev. J. T. Crump
ley, the present pastor of the church.
Playmates of the children were
the pallbearers for Malcolm and Mar
gie Smith.
lect 3.) —Last of the Mohicans, Coop
er; Kenilworth, Scott; The Talisman,
Scott; Trail of the Lonesome Pine,
Fox; Treasure Island, Stevenson;
David Copperfield, Dickens; Oliver
Twist, Dickens; Hoosier Schoolmas
ter, Eggleston; Vicar of Wakefield,
Goldsmith; The Birds’ Christmas Car
ol, Wiggin; The Man Without a Coun
try; In the Days of Poor Richard,
Bachellor; Lay of the Last Minstrel,
Scott; Boy Life on the Prairies, Gar
land; Odyssey, Pease.
11. Shorter Prose Narratives.
(Select 2.) Job, Esther, Ruth, Bible;
Old Testament Narratives from Gen
esis to Exodus; The Goldbug, E. A.
Poe; Story of the Iliad; Story of the
Odyssey; Story of King Arthur and
His Knights; Myths of Northern
Lands.
111. Drama. (Select 1.) Mid
summer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare;
Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare;
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakes
peare.
IV. (Select 2.) Current articles
or editorials in any of the leading
magazines.
V. (Select 1.) Story of My Life,
Helen Keller; We, Chas. A. Lind
bergh; Essay on Friendship, Emer
son; Franklin’s Autobiography; Mark
Twain’s Autobiography; Letters of
Robert E. Lee; Great Speeches, Ba
ker; Modern Lives, Gaston.
Tenth Gracie
I. Novels. (Select one from each
author.) 1. House of Seven Gables,
Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter, Haw
thorne; The Marble Faun, Haw
thorne. 2. Last of the Mohicans,
Cooper; Deerslayer, Cooper; The
Spy, Cooper. ,
11. One Modern Novel.
111. Essays. (Select 2.) “Famil
iar Essays of Today”, Benj. A. Hey
drick; Bruce Barton (current maga
zine); Emerson; Holmes; Article or
editorial in any leading magazine.
IV. Short Stories, (Select 4.)
Poe; O. Henry; Brett Harte; Konrad
Bercovici, Irving S. Cobb, Booth Tar
kington, Elizabeth B. Petersen, E.
Barrington, in current magazines.
DISCOVERS ANCIENT
FAMILY HEIRLOOM
An interesting and ancient heir
loom of the Smith family recently
came into the possession of Dr. B. L.
Smith of Forsyth. The heirloom is a
pitcher which is approximately 200
years old and at one time belonged
to his great-great-great gandmother,
who was born on shipboard while her
parents were enroute from Ireland
to America. The pitcher is about
one foot high and is in a fine state
of preservation and is a remarkable
specimen of the stonework of the
time. There is a light blue band
around the center and around this
. band are raised representations of a
sheep, a basket of fruit and a grey
hound. The remainder of the body
of the pitcher as well as the handle
are colored in gold.
FIVE BROTHERS HIT
BY BOLT AT HAHIRA
Five men, the Leggett brothers,
who had been fishing in the Withla
coochee -river near Hahira, were
struck by lightning Friday afternoon. |
and are prominent 7890$ 123456
Three are in a serious condition. I
The Leggett family moved to Hahira I
three years ago from North Carolina ।
and are prominent farmers.
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And that will be enough out of you,
remarked the surgeon as he stitched
the patient together.
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Rhodes Realty Co.
Real Estate Specialists
Forsyth, Ga.
NUMBER THIRTY-THREE
BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
OPENED WEDNESDAY
INDICATIONS POINT TO A FINE
STUDEN'i BODY AS TO SIZE,
PREPARATION AND ABILITY
FOR 1930-1931<,SESSION.
The opening exercises of Bessie
Tift college were held Wednesday
morning, the devotional exercises be
ing conducted by Rev. H. D. War
nock, pastor of the First Baptist
church, who aiso delivered the ad
dress of welcome to the students and
faculty in behalf of the town and its
churches.
Dr. A. Chamlee,- president of the
college, presided at the exercises and
welcomed the students in behalf of
the college. Dr. Chamlee also deliv
ered an address in connection
with the conferring of the A. B. de
gree on Miss Martha Louise Newton,
which was an interesting and impres
sive feature of the occasion, combin
ing as it did the closing of the sum
mer school and the opening of the
regular session. A number of mes
sages from the trustees afid from
former students of the college were
read.
Students began arriving Monday
and registration continued through
Tuesday with the indication that
there will be a fine student body as
to size, preparation and ability.
The faculty is practically the same
as last year, which assures the usual
high standard of work at the college.
Miss Ruth Scarborough, candidate for
the Ph. D. degree at Colut ibia, will
have Miss Christine Lowe’s work in
history. Miss Lowe is on leave stud
ying at Columbia. Miss Edna West
will be assistant professor of expres
sion and dramatic art. Mrs. Riley
B. Plymale will resume her work as
associate professor of English after
a year’s leave. I ' .
SEASON’S BEST FISH STORY
Here’s the summer’s best fish sto
ry: David Stephens, of Erwin, N.
C., says that while fishing with his
wife her hook caught a snag. He
scrambled into the stream to release
it, stepped on an old automobile tire,
threw it out on the bank. Inside the
tire were nine catfish.
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